In the 1840's, Hill & Adamson took a series of photographs (or calotypes, I think they called them) in Scotland in preparation for a painting project. One of them is of a senior piper of the Black Watch regiment, in full regalia, wearing the medal he earned at Waterloo. Meaning, to paraphrase Roland Barthes, that we are "seeing the eyes that saw" Ney's cavalry charge the battered british squares at Waterloo - the piper was standing in one of those squares! We may think he was privileged to have experienced that momentous day. He may have thought so, too. Afterwards, anyway. Is there a point to this story? Well, no, just a story to ponder. My best wishes to you and yours, Nuski.