There are certain dates in our lives we never forget. For many of us we used to ask, “Where were you on December 7, 1941 or where were you on November 22, 1963?” More recently we ask where were you on 9/11?
Other markers in our history were the World War II, the Korean Conflict or the Gulf War. If we participated in these events, we mark our life and times by them.
We rehearse these dates whenever we talk about our family or when something similar comes up in our conversations. For instance, 1979, 1989, 1999, 2001, 2005 and most recently ...