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Sunday, March 15, 2020

Every Hundred Years Or So

So, I've lived long enough to see: the birth of Television, (me and TV are the same age) The Korean War, McCarthyism, Bay of Pigs crisis, Watergate, The cold war, The Vietnam War, The War in the Middle East, the race riots, the assassinations of Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Bobbie Kennedy, landing on the moon, (yes, it really happened) a couple recessions, 911, May 4th at Kent State, the Watts Riots, Woodstock, the Civil Rights Act, the first Super Bowl, the invention of cell phones, microwaves, voicemail, digital everything, I know there's more, but that's just what came to mind in the last 5 minutes. And that's just up through the 60's!

There have been very good and very bad events in the last century. But there have been very good and very bad events in EVERY century.

Maybe that's why we're concerned and cautious but not panic-stricken over the Coronavirus. It's not our first rodeo. There have been lots and lots of times we've felt like we were sitting on a precipice, and this is another one. Mother nature definitely has a way of smacking us up side the head from time to time.

I do believe this will be seen by historians as one of those every 100-year events. So, do our future generations a favor. Document the hell out of it. And stay well.