The United States and the world have faced tough times before—deep recessions, stock-market crashes, and pandemics. But never the whole world all at once.
I recently recalled the first time my father, an Eighth Air Force B-17 and B-24 pilot in World War II, and I first watched the terrific movie Memphis Belle, very loosely based on a true story of a particularly harrowing bomber mission. Dad explained that almost all of the things that happened to that B-17 really did happen, just not all to one crew on one mission. Hollywood had taken some license to make it more exciting. Well, this is happening all at once, and it is beginning to resemble more of a horror movie than an adventure. CONT.
Charlie Cook