In 2009 we are farther in time from the end of the Second World War than they were from the Civil War; families still felt the loss of loved ones from that awful national trauma.
Near the end of the term, we heard that Frank Aller had decided to return to America. He moved back to the Boston area and went home to Spokane to face the draft music.
"I am relieved and happy that the court process is over and that justice was served, but it is incredibly difficult now, just trying to find new work," she says.
Toward the end of his life, he lost control of his body and was abandoned by his dignity, something he remained painfully aware of until his final days.
Saying he was "painfully aware that I have deeply hurt many many people", Madoff described a long-running scheme that he knew from the beginning was "criminal and wrong" but hoped would end shortly.