re: #74 Decatur Deb

It’s a common kind of religious romanticism rooted in the days before public sanitation and vaccines. Nothing like a 25-year life expectancy to help you focus on the eternal.

Just described my childhood in two lines.

As a Rev War re-enactor I try to push back against people who think that earlier times were better.

The first thing I use is “Sure it was better, if you don’t mind leeches being used to ‘cure’ cancer and most anything else, and having 6 to 10 kids before you turn 35 while knowing that half of them will die in childhood.”