URBANNA — I recently read a poll that said the majority of Americans dread next year’s election for fear it will be a repeat of 2020. Facing a campaign rerun of the same two candidates running again in ’24 for another go at it seems to me would be like reliving a bad dream.
Such dread triggered memories of past campaigns and elections I have witnessed since being born in the Dark Ages … or 1941, just months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor — yesterday’s “9-11,” which FDR called “The Day of Infamy.” (Incredible to think the majority of Americans alive today were not alive in 1941.)
Remembering the past might be just the ticket I need to accept the future. So today I begin a series of memories of past elections.
