Yesterday, I was telling the wife that the passing of time is strange to think about. A lot of history wasn't really that long ago compared to our ages.

Sept 11, 2001 (terrorist attacks) was 25 years ago this year. My wife was born in 1970....25 years after World War 2 ended in 1945.

WW2 was in full rage in 1943. 26 years later Neil & Buzz walked on the moon. The year 2000 (which seems like last week to me) was 26 years ago.

In 1765, the USA was not yet a nation. In 1865, the Civil War ended. In 1965, I was one year old. Each 100 years apart.

1902 was more than a decade before US involvement in World War 1 and American culture and society was gradually progressing from it's early stages. The Wild West was still mostly wild...shootouts, saloons, outlaws, Indians, etc. This was only 62 years before I was born.....I'll be 62 this November.

It all seems a little odd to me.....

Swamp- civil war ended in may 1865

Time certainly is strange. Most people think about the past and future more than the present too!

My bad...you are correct!

Forgive me for that 1 year error typo.

I went back and corrected that calculation.....lol

LOL

I got confused calculating the numbers and slipped up and shorted my Confederate brethren a year.....

...Deo Vindice!

Not much in the way of history on this side of the pond compared to the old country.
For example,my home town here was founded in around 1920
My home town in Ireland was founded in 870.

Swamp, I had a similar conversation with my wife a couple weeks ago. My MIL's man friend is 83. Born in 1943. 83 years before that was the BEGINNING of Abraham Lincoln's presidency. Pretty wild.

I made my debut 2 months after WW2 ended. My parents were born in 1904 and 1905, married in 1929 and had 3 kids during the Great Depression and then I came along 13 years later. The changes, both good and bad, that I have seen are mind boggling. Hard to even imagine what the next 100 years will bring.

Change is constant.

My Viking ancestors ransacked Boco's hometown in 875. Most of the loot was frost scraped pelts....maybe a few miscellaneous cute redheads.

Kamala Harris made a stupid redundant speech about the passage of time….. need more time.

I’ve always said that an Irishman is a Viking product…

Ok close dates. 1805ish the country was crossed on foot and 1905 by gasoline powered vehicles ( Lt. Eisenhower future president). I like those numbers......jk

Your Irish history is lacking.
Brian Boru and his irish forces conquered the Danes (vikings) and pushed the few survivors into the sea in 1014.Ending their shenanigans in Ireland decicively.
Brian was about 70 years old at the time and died in the battle of Clontarf..

I'm not sure what made this pop into my mind.....maybe it was because I was watching History Channel's WW2 documentary.

Our lives are short, but seem long when you subtract the years against history.

We walked on the moon? Nixon called them? An internal combustion engine runs in a vacuum? Cell phone works in a vacuum? And I still don't have a reliable cell phone.signal.

Ever heard of a radio that relays off satellites? Yep...even in the late 60s.

Go with Verizon!

Who said the civil war ended? lol

All I know is the life i lived i have about a decade i don't recall and feel like i got cheated out of, one day your 30 next week your 60! It goes in a flash.

I think of the exact same scenarios multiple times. I teach. Had a student that graduated 10 years ago at the age of 18. Her Dad was 98! Her Grandparents (whom she didn't know) were born in the 1800's!

I was born in 1957, in PA. Had an outhouse until mid 60's. Kids just can't comprehend that now. I'm an old soul. I'm only 68, but sure have been through some changes.