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Posted: 01 January 2026 at 1:32pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Is it really possible that 1926 was 100 years ago?!?
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Michael Penn
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Posted: 01 January 2026 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
In that vein, are we really nearing America's 250th birthday?!

I mean, I was a kid and the Civil War was a century ago!

What happened?!!
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Posted: 01 January 2026 at 3:57pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
When we arrived at the centennial of the First World War in 2014, I declared that could not be. Surly a war that was 100 years ago was the American Civil War!!!
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Posted: 01 January 2026 at 4:39pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
I still remember when Bugs Bunny mentioned that the Civil War ended almost 90 years ago.
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Posted: 01 January 2026 at 5:42pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
WW2 ended five years before I was born, but my British relatives all talked about it constantly. Much of what they said entered my brain as false memory, and it took me years to grasp that, no, I had not experienced the Blitz first hand.

The fact that I walked to and from school past vacant lots that were bombsites didn’t exactly clarify things.

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Yeah, you can make your head spin with these kind of temporal comparisons. Covid started 6 years ago. When I was born, the first moon landing was 6 years ago!
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Posted: 01 January 2026 at 6:34pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply
> the centennial of the First World War <

My paternal great-uncle fought in the Great War. And my own grandfather was only a couple of years too young. Whew!
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