Want to feel old?

[gigglingwizard]

Tomorrow's 9/11. There are high school students who have no memory of it. There are kids in middle school who weren't even alive yet when it happened. To them, it's like what Vietnam was to people my age--something that ended just before we arrived, something that, as we grew up, we saw adults reeling from but that we, ourselves, had no personal

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[marginaleye]

President Bush--the first one--launched operation Desert Shield when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait TWENTY-FOUR YEARS ago!

The Romans would be on the verge of granting citizenship to their first crop of native auxiliary troops about now.

[pkbarbiedoll]

I especially feel old when running across old friends who now have children (or gasp.. teenagers!).

[gigglingwizard]

My oldest two are 22 and 20 now. Haven't seen 'em since they were 9 and 7. Now my younger two are 8 and 4, and I find myself confusing their names with the older two.