Wednesday; October 22
Sixty-three years ago, the whole world was holding its collective breath! For almost two weeks in October, 1962; two international superpowers – the United States and the Soviet Union – stood toe to toe in a conflict over the presence of missiles in Cuba. There was a lot of back and forth that included threats, responses and reactions; but for a period of a couple of weeks the world waited for the other shoe to drop – and feared that the drop wouldn’t be another one of Khrushchev's shoes but a nuclear bomb. Since we are here to report the history, it is evident that things had a positive outcome, but for those who lived through those days, things were scary! The reason I bring this up is to encourage us to stop and breathe for a little bit. Sure, there are some things that aren’t going well in our world, nation and society now; but this is nothing new. What we...