This is a fascinating article, but it really strikes me how quickly the past fades. To a friend who’s currently deployed I sent the following message (we’re bo

This is a fascinating article, but it really strikes me how quickly the past fades. To a friend who’s currently deployed I sent the following message (we’re both Americans for context): > I’ve always thought the civil war was a long time ago - it finished a bit over 100 years before I was born. I never thought that to our parents, they probably considered what their grandparent’s childhood was like - those were their grandparents first memories after all. For our kids, that’s about the same for WW1.