Time moves on. Relentlessly. Turn around. Blink. A half century goes by. Fifty years. Five decades. 600 months. 2,600 weeks. 18,250 days 438,000 hours. 26,280,000 minutes. 1,576,800,000 seconds. Leap years not accounted for. When you are eighteen years old, a half century is forever. A half century before I was born was a different century altogether. A half century before that was the Civil War. It’s a long time. Yet it passes. The earth keeps going around the sun. Winter, s