re: What's the closest you or a family member has been to a part of history?

I guess the closest thing for me personally is having visited the World Trade Center before 9/11. I visited in 1990 when I was 11, and 9/11 happened when I was 22. I have an eerie picture of me looking out over the Hudson from the indoor observatory of the South Tower around sunset.

Anyway, because of my youth at the time of 9/11, if I live to be 80+ there probably won’t be too many people still kicking around who will be able to say they visited those buildings that are a big part of American history.