[Tax-chick]

But sometimes the times in which we live, especially if they are times dominated by evil, don’t allow for normal.

I think you're implying that we're living in times when people will be driven (or allow themselves to be sorted) to extremes ... and I agree.

If Anne Frank had been in different circumstances, she might have been a figure in the Dutch Resistance, like Audrey Hepburn at about the same age.

[EternalVigilance]

It’s always intensely interesting to look back on the broad sweep of history, like we do every day on these threads.

But wars are personal things, for those caught up in them.

God keep us and our children from having to learn that ourselves firsthand.

My oldest son Matthew made it through officer candidate school this week.

May he never have to put his training into practice.