I don’t know if I can bear to see it, knowing a lot of the people I’m seeing will die horrible deaths.
We’re one of the first generations of humans who are able to see our ancestors, even those who died before we were born, on film. IMHO, it’s a precious gift. It wasn’t that long ago that only still photos were available. Before that, for centuries if not millenia, the only record of those who came before were spoken/written accounts and maybe a drawing, painting or statue, and that only if you were wealthy or powerful.
You can “meet” people in a fashion, who were dead before you were born. Get to know them if only in a small way. It’s kind of incredible. It makes their lives a little more for us than defined only by their deaths.
My late maternal Grandfather was an Infantryman in the 42th (Rainbow) Infantry Division in the trenches in France. Wounded, he came home to establish and operate a hardware store in Wisconsin and live into his 80s.
He taught me a lot and was a wonderful Grandpa!