A Lot Has Changed

There were simpler times, weren’t there?

My father left college to rain bombs down on Germany’s oil refineries. Then he came home, finished school, married his sweetheart, sold real estate in the community of his birth, raised two kids, sent them to college, retired, and played golf.

Far from a unique story, it was a tale that played itself out all over the country in the middle and late part of the 20th Century.

Dad was a Republican, because of the conservative views he shared with so many others.  I simply cannot imagine what he would think of present-day GOP politics and the near miss we just survived (it now appears), an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government.