Reply #21: Don't get me started on that or I'll start getting misty eyed

[lenidog]

I mean I think it is so great that here we are 5,000 years down the road and we still tell the tale of Gilgamesh or 3,000 years down the road we still talk of Troy. I mean think of it nations have risen and fallen, languages born and died and people today still read the tales and through all those years there is something that still connects us with them. When I was stationed in Europe I made it a point to travel all over on leave. I went to Troy to say that I actually stood on the spot where Hector and Achilles fought. Here I am 3,000 years after the event in a land unknown and a tongue yet unborn in their time. Its very humbling.