There were only four days left in that sad and chaotic year of 1968. Things hadn’t gotten any better after April 4. Since then, Robert Kennedy had been shot and killed, the nation’s cities had been torn by riots and burnings, and unprecedented bitterness over the Vietnam War divided Americans from one another. Still, at that moment all Loe could think of to say was, “I’m just standing here being very proud to be an American.”
