The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Is the Pandemic This Generation's Pearl Harbor or 9/11?-- Part 3: The Pandemic Is Not the Same Thing

 A few months back, the writer of the article, E.J. Montini, received a letter from a reader who was describing the difficulties of living through the pandemic.  He related how his 18-year-old son was going off to college not knowing whether he would be able to move into a dorm or participate in sports or even leave his parents' house.

"This pandemic is his generation's 9/11," the man wrote.

Except, it's not.

My parent's generation, the WW II one, recognized a common enemy and came together to defeat it.

Likewise, with 9/11, Americans of all personal and political persuasions united in sorrow and  and in resolve against those who attacked us.

It isn't that way now.

--GreGen


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