Living History out my Window

I wish I could talk to these men and ask them about what all they have seen in their days on earth, and, really, what they are thinking about.... right.... now. Imagine they are in their 70s. Having grown up in LiaoNing province, it means they were born during the Japanese occupation and their WMD experiments, they were governed by the Kuomintang, then the beginnings of Mao's dreamy PRC... by this time maybe they are in their thirties, then the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution.. and then Reform and Opening again! Capitalism to Communism "full circle".