QUARANTINE

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Published: Sunday, April 26, 2020 12:52

by John Campbell

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     I remember the summer of 1944, when my one-room school teacher cried all day because her husband was landing at Normandy. Many items were rationed including meat, sugar, gasoline and many more. We lived in a farming region so it was easy to get eggs, milk and poultry but still hard to get some of the things that make life easier. WWII was raging, and we were taking part by going without. The next country-wide problem was the polio epidemic. My uncle died from the disease, but there was no quarantine. Finally, a vaccine was developed, and we were safe from the terrible disease. The Korean War then the Vietnam War were when we saw the first anti-government demonstrations. Some of the news outlets were against the war, and one even staged battle scenes as real live events. Later they had to admit the faux battles but never apologized for the misleading news reports. This was the first time that I became aware that news outlets were biased and not entirely believable. The protests were valid since our government was drafting young men and sending them into a battle that was not being fought to be won and for a foreign government, without any need to protect ourselves from an enemy.