My wife shared an article recently in her Google Reader that highlighted great last lines of literature. In it was the last line from The Great Gatsby, and I forgot how wonderful it was until I reread it:
The Library of Congress has published 700 photographs of Civil War soldiers. While the Civil War seems like the distant, distant past it really isn't. People from the era were still alive when the WWII Generation were young. We're only separated from these people by one, maybe two generations.
The stunning thing about these photographs is how young and recognizable the subjects are. I live in an area between two large universities and many of the subjects could be swapped for their modern counterparts.
