Years ago there was a song made famous by The Judds. It had a line that said “Grandpa, tell me ‘bout the good old days”. Now, the good old days the song was referring to were the days following World War II, when life was on the rebound after facing a true global adversary. They were the days of healing. Days of mending a broken world.
Well, as a millennial, I dealt with my coming of age in the wake of 9-11, a recession, the Afghanistan war, countless school shootings, movie theater violence, race riots, the fall of the housing market, Deep Horizon’s oil spill, and innumerable national disaste...