The Confusion of Eras
It’s funny how most of us seem to compartmentalize events. We studied the revolutionary war, the civil war, the old west, world war I etc. etc. and it seems like they all happen in a vacuum – like the people that participated were hatched at the beginning of the event and evaporate when it’s over then we go to the next era. It blows my mind to think that some people who were alive during the civil war may have been alive during the revolutionary war – they would be old, alright, but still there………..at the very least some of them would have remembered George Washington when he was alive.…..and many people who were alive during WW1 would have been alive during the civil war – very possibly fought in it. And definitely some who were fighting Indians in the old west would have been very much alive during WWI – a few even alive during WWII. People aren’t supposed to cross epochs like that!!