Eyewitness to History

[kandrathe]

I think it would have been interesting and particularly morbid to have seen any of the "heroic" battles, navel or land. The battle of Trafalgar with Nelson, or the 13th Light Dragoons in the Charge of the Light Brigade before the Russian guns at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. My ancestry is Scandinavian, mostly from the Gothenburg area of Sweden, so I have an interest in Ostrogoth conquests of northern Europe.

In a less morbid vein, to be present at the signing of the American Declaration of Independance, or to have seen the unspoiled virgin forests and wild plains of North America teaming with vast herds of Bison. Or, to have been with Lewis and Clark, in their travels down the Colorado river and to have been one of the first European explorers to have seen the Grand Canyon. I get a little taste of that when I go to South and Central American rainforests or SCUBA dive in some of the remote pristine reef areas around the world. It always feels like I'm one of the first persons to have seen it.

But in terms on any one persons impact on history, it probably was Jesus of Nazarath. I guess it would have been cool to have met him, and watched those events unfold.