An era is passing

As someone who came of age during the 1980's, I've become a bit depressed lately. We've had Ronald Reagan, and now John Paul II die in the past year. Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather have departed their nightly newscasts, with Ted Koppel on the way out, and now Peter Jennings stricken with lung cancer. I really feel like the icons of the eighties are vanishing.

I just finished reading the Doonesbury 25th anniversary compilation, and was really moved by the memories evoked by the 80's era strips. Not the strips themselves, because I didn't get to read current Doonesbury back then, but the events immortalized in the book's pages. Time is really marching on.