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 suf...