It's been said that as you age, you appreciate history going back proportional to your age as being near your own time. As a rule of thumb it kinda makes sense:

It's been said that as you age, you appreciate history going back proportional to your age as being near your own time. As a rule of thumb it kinda makes sense: - As a kid I thought the moon landing was in the distant past, being 11 years before me. Now I have friends who watched it. - The war seemed even more distant, but I know concentration camp victims who lived through that. - Pop music seems to fly past, but there's a familiarity to the old hits that I recognize from older people now. - The wall being built and coming down was about a quarter century, felt like forever at the time. I remember things that happened a quarter century ago now.