It came into my mind recently that we must be coming to a point in time where there is noone left alive who remembers the great war.
Obviously we cannot know for sure but how close do you think we to that moment when noone alive remembers? There surely cannot be anyone alive who fought in it as you would have to be 108 at least (16 years old in 191 and if you were young enough to be able to remember the times of the war you would still have to be over 100 and that's if memory still serves.
My grandad died last year at the age of 88, he was a Desert Rat in WW2 and he joined young which makes me think the number alive who fought in WW2 must be declining too. I was in the Imperial War museum 2 weeks ago listening to an elderley gentleman talk about being evacuated and he wasn't even old enough to fight then.
I don't know if it is because I have been bought up learning about them all the time or because I am afraid that the wars will lose their importance as time goes on and there is noone left alive who can talk about them who lived it, but it is a sad thought to me the day there is noone left alive who remembers WW1 and especially WW2. I don't know why but it has been on my mind.
Obviously we cannot know for sure but how close do you think we to that moment when noone alive remembers? There surely cannot be anyone alive who fought in it as you would have to be 108 at least (16 years old in 191 and if you were young enough to be able to remember the times of the war you would still have to be over 100 and that's if memory still serves.
My grandad died last year at the age of 88, he was a Desert Rat in WW2 and he joined young which makes me think the number alive who fought in WW2 must be declining too. I was in the Imperial War museum 2 weeks ago listening to an elderley gentleman talk about being evacuated and he wasn't even old enough to fight then.
I don't know if it is because I have been bought up learning about them all the time or because I am afraid that the wars will lose their importance as time goes on and there is noone left alive who can talk about them who lived it, but it is a sad thought to me the day there is noone left alive who remembers WW1 and especially WW2. I don't know why but it has been on my mind.