Five Minutes Forward

Then Revolutionary War. 1812. The Civil War. The Cholera epidemic. WWI. Spanish Flu. WWII. Korean War. Vietnam. Coronavirus. In terms of the level of sacrifice required to endure these events, you’d better believe that what we’re going through now in April of 2020 stacks up. You are here, now, in this moment. In terms of lives lost, we’ve experienced xx so far, and can expect to lose xxx in total. When you think of moments in the American story and where you were, this one stacks up with the most significant ones in our history. ...

April 20, 2020 · 6 min · 1151 words · Travis