Dec. 7, 1941 – 79 years ago today – may indeed be a date that lives in infamy, even if barely remembered. A total of 2,403 died that day from the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. Our then polarized country immediately united and went to war. By the end of it , there were 291,557 […]
The Great Depression, a Scarred Generation–and the Coronavirus
Those of a certain age – specifically my age – have had parents who entered young adulthood during the Great Depression, for them perhaps an even more life defining event than the Second World War. I fear that today’s millennials–many of them already saddled with student loan debt–may be in for a similarly traumatic period that […]