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Eugene L. Meyer

Author & Journalist

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Recent Posts

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Pearl Harbor Day 2020

December 6, 2020 by Gene Meyer 2 Comments

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 […]

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The Great Depression, a Scarred Generation–and the Coronavirus

April 13, 2020 by Gene Meyer 4 Comments

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 […]

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