Lift the Torch

I was born and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey, a city of about 70,000 just south of Jersey City in the greater New York metropolitan area.   Bayonne sits on a peninsula, with New York Bay on one side and Newark Bay on the other, the two of them connected by the deepwater channel called the Kill Von Kull.  For most of my childhood I lived across the street from the Kill.  I could watch the freighters come and go, day and night, flying flags from all the countries of the world.   The Bayonne Bridge...