I saw in QST (not sure which one, recent though), that a Ham moved to some city, going through his stuff found his first QSL card from 35+ (maybe 45) years ago. He tracked down the call through qrz.com (I think), and found out the Ham he first contacted after getting his license a long time ago, live on the block behind his house.

As a volunteer in EM, we really do need younger people. The problem is the younger people will burn out, because there is so many things to be done, thus vicious cycle. A lot of the older hams know they don't have physical strength or endurance to do the things that need to be done. Everyone knows its really the last resort for communication in the U.S.

Well, unless you can use homing pigeons, or still have your cheat sheet on smoke signals.