Time keeps slipping into the future...

OK, you all might think this is very silly, but here's what I'm thinking about this morning.

A while ago, I read a really great book called "The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All." It was about... well, what the title says; it was a fictional memoir of the last person from the Civil War. Actually, she had been married to the last surviving confederate soldier, she hadn't really lived through the war herself.

I was impressed by the idea, though, that someone would be the LAST person alive who personally lived through some kind of huge event like that.

I also remember talking to Grandma Rodgers. She enjoyed fortune-telling and Nostradamus and prophecies about the end of the world in the same way I do. We talked about stuff like that alot, and we agreed that the prophecies are interesting... they may be true, they may not be true ... but we weren't really going to change our lives because of them. Anyway, I remember Gram saying to me that "the world is supposed to end when the last soldier of the great war dies." Now, keep in mind that she didn't really think that meant that the world was going to END. She took the word "end" in a different meaning. It would end the way we know it, but it wouldn't be OVER, just different. After the end of the world, we would begin a millenia of great peace. So it was a good thing.

Now, you're probably wondering why I've been thinking of that book and of those conversations with Gram.

Last week in school, the history professor brought in an article about The Last Living World War 1 Veteran. Yup, the USA is down to one last veteran of the Great War. The last German soldier is gone already.

Who could imagine being the last survivor of some huge event like that? Something that millions and millions of people went through -- so many people died, and so many others survived and lived for years, building up our country... a whole generation of people? And he is THE LAST.

Will the world end when he dies? Who knows? I guess it depends on how you define the end of the world. But I'm definitely hoping for a millenia of peace. Is it even possible?