Our Defining Moment: Standing Tall in a Pandemic

Ive been thinking about my parents lately. They were part of what we commonly refer to today as the greatest generation, those souls born between 1901 to the late 1920s. We call them the greatest generation because they lived through a number of defining moments including World War I, the Spanish Flu epidemic, the great depression and World War II.

Not only did my parents live during these difficult times but they were poor. My mothers family lived for several months in a tent as they were...