At some point, I don't know when, there are now more people in the world that are younger than me. This year there is now a president who is younger than me. The president was always a father figure; the first one I remember was Kennedy and until Clinton every president was old enough to be my father. We've had two presidents born in the 1940s, none from the 1950s and now one born in 1961. I'm now part of the older generation.
The touchstone memory for everyone used to be the JFK assassination. "Where were you?" or "What were you doing when..." Now there are more people alive who hadn't even been born yet. But we have another touchstone now: 9/11. Before I was born it was Pearl Harbor.
The 20th century fades further into the past.
And, of course, there are still many people old enough to remember all three "touchstones." I hope we do not have a fourth anytime soon!
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