It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!
There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
Brady Anderson, Athlete (1964) |
Edmund Barton, Politician (1849) |
Ruben Dario, Poet (1867) |
Jonathan Davis, Musician (1971) |
Gilles Deleuze, Philosopher (1925) |
Curt Flood, Athlete (1938) |
Oliver Hardy, Actor (1892) |
Thomas Jordan Jarvis, Politician (1836) |
Benjamin Todd Jealous, Activist (1973) |
Danny Kaye, Actor (1913) |