today

Over the last few days, I have been asking bombarding a good friend of both religious and military background, all manner of  'why' questions. I found this one sentence in an article he recommended I read. That was it and it was good enough.

My thanks go both to him for his patience and to Ms. Hyde for her masterful prose:

To many, today felt not just like watching a moment in history, but watching the embodiment of a now-vanished past pass finally into history.

Marina Hyde, The Guardian
19 Sep 2022, 14.53 BST