An issue-by-issue look at 2020 (part 1)
RICHMOND – For those who have lived through –
• The Cold War, while learning to hide under classroom desks as protection against atomic bombs;
• The Civil Rights Movement with protests, beatings and murders, and the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.;
• The Vietnam War, protests and beatings, fear of being drafted, Richard Nixon’s disgrace and the humiliating desertion of the nation’s Vietnamese allies;
• The Iranian hostage crisis and Arab oil embargo;
• AIDS and dread about how the disease could spread, with even schoolchildren being villainized and ostracized,
• Sept. 11, 2001, the longest war in U.S. history, tens of thousands of war dead and The Great Recession –
2020’s Great Pandemic and the associated Viral Recession add another regrettable and unforgettable chapter to the book of life. The virus brought death and suffering, physical and financial, last year. But at last, vaccines have brought hope as a new year dawns.
2020 will be…