A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906 (Dear America)

by Judy Blundell

I discovered something at that moment, diary. If you see enough destruction, if you feel helpless in the face of it, if you’ve been terrified enough times, there does come a moment when you cannot bear one more thing to be lost. I was tired of being

afraid. Tired of moving away from the fire. I wanted to fight.