As I was waiting patiently for my website to be restored to full function last week, I watched two movies: “Gods and Generals” and “Gettysburg.” Looking at the country’s systemic racism spilling out into the streets today, we, as a nation, have yet to recover from the cause of the Civil War…slavery. Compromises were made in our Congress before that conflict happened. The Southern states were allowed to have slaves, to have militias to protect slave owners, and to use…..
As I watch the news reports about the coronavirus, are we ready for an epidemic of these proportions? Are we, as a nation of prosperity, prepared to lose many of the things each of us has worked so hard for? Why did the program that would help us face such an outbreak get cut completely from our federal budget several years ago? Change is never easy, and many of us can’t fathom a world that would be vastly different from…..
