The Civil War was more recent than you think
The last Civil War pension was paid out in 2020
That means there was one person that could have played Fortnite
and collected a Civil War pension
Now how is this possible?
The war ended in 1865
Well there was a Civil War vet
who conceived a child at 83 years old
which makes him one of the oldest fathers in human history
by the way
His child lived to be 90 years old
but she was disabled which meant
that she got to keep his pension her whole life
right, but that means that in 2020
we were two generations away from the Civil War
Now that’s kind of crazy
People were roller skating during the Civil War, right
During the Civil War
the first tube stations were being constructed in London
Just 10 years later we’d have telephones
We can call each other up
This is yesterday we’re talking about
There’s a great line from William Faulkner
“The past isn’t dead. It’s not even past.”
and I just I think about that all the time