We are living in a time when war appears imminent, but for many of us, this isn’t our first rodeo. I grew up during a time when war seemed to be stalking us. Americans had experienced Pearl Harbor, which brought them into a war that caught them by surprise, even if it wasn’t all that surprising. Still, we lived in America, the central feature on the North American landmass, surrounded by oceans that convinced us that we were apart from the world. At the time, war seemed an elective activity; we didn’t think the choice would be taken from us, first by Japan, a nation we thought little about and held in little regard, and then by Hitler, a man many regarded as both vile and comical. We had lived in an illusion of safety until suddenly we were plunged into a reality most of us didn’t know was there. We recovered with extraordinary speed and invented a war machine that crushed our enemies.
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