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I have a good friend who told me she was thrilled when Donald Trump eked out a win last November. I was stunned at her enthusiasm. “Why?” I asked. Topping her list: the deportation of illegal immigrants. “Our grandparents were legal.” She reminded me. “Our grandparents came to America in the 19-teens…before there were quotas…
November 11, 2019. One hundred and one years since the Armistice that made 11 a.m. of the eleventh day of the eleventh month a moment for reflection and remembrance. Inevitably on this day, the veterans who come first to my mind are my mother’s three brothers, who served overseas during World War II. (A fourth…