Tagged With "War of 1812"

Amazing work...and a stark reminder of how recently all this took place.

Recent, indeed. I've taken to comparing events in history to the life spans of people I've known, or who they knew, and it brings it into shocking relief for me. WWI was a fact during the young adulthood of my grandparents, just 5 years before the births of my parents, one of whom is still alive. In that context it seems like it was just yesterday.

The photos are eerie and definitely captivating. Perhaps the most horrific of all the wars, but we always say that until the next ones roll around and are even worse.

With the approach of the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I in mind, Jeff Steiner has posted a series of postcards on his website, Americans in France, with ghosts of that war merged with a current view.  As I mentioned the last time I...