It’s been 45 years since the Bicentennial celebration. The country put Watergate in the rearview; Apple and Microsoft were incorporated; and on Feb. 5, 1976, there was a four-hour race riot at Escambia {Fla.) High School.
A year ago, President Trump was in the midst of denying the emerging coronavirus. A year later, Americans are hurting. … What matters is that we are numb. People want their lives back to normal.
I’m not 10 anymore. I’m 53, and my heroes are dying. … Yesterdays are to be cherished. Yesterday, we didn’t know Tom Seaver was dead.
Forty-six years ago I was 7. We were back in Lynchburg – but not on the ridge, running around the tobacco fields, berry patches, gardens, and hayloft. My mom was home to bury her dad.
Darold Neal went out the way he lived – showing love, for his family, for his school, for everyone who knew him. And we are better people because he passed through our lives.