The Last Post (no, not *mine*!)
i was musing on the way home from work about the inexorable passage of time.
When I was growing up, World War 1 was "a very long time ago" and the WW1 veterans were all very old, even then (in their 80s). But WW2 still felt quite recent, and many of the people around me were people who'd lived through it.
The gap between the two wars was just less than 21 years. To put that into context, there are going to be many of you on my flist who have more than a passing memory of December 1987. :p
It suddenly occurred to me that most WW2 *veterans* are over 80 years old, and even those who were children (but who still have memories of it) are pushing towards 70. It won't be long before there are only a handful of them left either.
I so need to go to the Western Front one day soon ...
When I was growing up, World War 1 was "a very long time ago" and the WW1 veterans were all very old, even then (in their 80s). But WW2 still felt quite recent, and many of the people around me were people who'd lived through it.
The gap between the two wars was just less than 21 years. To put that into context, there are going to be many of you on my flist who have more than a passing memory of December 1987. :p
It suddenly occurred to me that most WW2 *veterans* are over 80 years old, and even those who were children (but who still have memories of it) are pushing towards 70. It won't be long before there are only a handful of them left either.
I so need to go to the Western Front one day soon ...