My son pointed out to me as we settled our bill in a restaurant recently: “Dad, how come you still use cash? Nobody does that any more!” I casually commented that “It reflects the time that I was raised.” There are fewer and fewer of...
Even at the height of the Blitz in World War 2, St. Paul’s Cathedral managed to survive intact, the famous “island in a sea of flames.” The aftermath is still visible today, for now St. Paul’s is mostly surrounded by modern postwar buildings, the...
As time marches on, many of us with links to the past are seeing those links pass away. As a young child, I grew up with a lot of friends, neighbors, and even co-workers that had been part of the events in World War II. I learned so much from...