Wow, nice remembrance here and a really nice job linking cultural attitudes that can seem so inconsequential and flippant to the larger implications of how we deal with the rest of the world.
I liked how you took it everywhere, saw it from everyone’s point of view. Don’t worry though, because some things live on.
I’m a teenager but I’ve seen both of those movies more than once – and I’ve watched news reels from every country about all the wars.
Enjoy what you have while you have it. That’s the only way we can ever find happiness. An immortal man could never know the joys that we do. It’s humanity. And the sadness makes the good things all the sweeter.
Life happens. So we live with it. Thanks for reminding me of that.