It is strange. I grew up with several WW1 veterans - my grandfather and some neighbours. Then the regiment I was with later had a very storied history during the First World War.
One thing I remember very vividly was attending the Remembrance Day commemoration at the Valour Road Cenotaph with my father, and then later on by myself. Every year there were fewer and fewer of the old vets, and the WW2 vets got older and older. A few years ago I was in Winnipeg for Nov 11 and saw much the same, this time the old WW2 vets had the same rold as their predecessors. On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > You got me thinking even more about this and I had another weird thought. > > My grandchildren will likely be born further from the start of WWI than I > was from the start of The Civil War. > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > > > > ...Next year will mark 100 years since World War 1 began. > > > > > > Why do I find that weird? I am not sure, it just does. > > > > > > Time is strange. I was born in 1973. When I was a kid and I found a coin > > with a 1964 date on it I thought it was an ancient artifact. I did then > > (and still today) think of the 50s as being so long before my time and > > really unimaginably old stuff. > > > > We're having our first kid in December and the 90's will be just as far > > back for my child as the 50's are for me. Time relative to an ever > > expanding lifetime is a really bizarre thing. > > > > WW1 somehow seems as old to me as Roman times. I know logically that it > > wasn't, but somehow it just seems further back. 100 years isn't all that > > long ago, but it feels like forever. > > > > -Cameron > > > > .... > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:368283 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
