{"id":806628,"date":"2020-04-21T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=382012"},"modified":"2020-04-21T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T20:45:00","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-not-all-will-be-lost-but-now-is-the-time-to-endure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-not-all-will-be-lost-but-now-is-the-time-to-endure\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Not all will be lost, but now is the time to endure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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No one ever elected to be thrust into the gnashing cogs of history. No one ever voted to mire themselves in the Great Depression or face the ultimate sacrifice in either of the World Wars. But we confronted them anyway, as a common people, and now those cornerstone events are part of every history book.<\/p>\n

Those stories feel like an abstraction now. They\u2019re hardly events we can really feel in our bones the same way it feels to lose your security in life or the anchoring presence of a loved one. But real people lived through those very real and dire times, even though it\u2019s hard to argue it was ever fair.<\/p>\n

As the clich\u00e9 goes, we are all riding the galloping horse of history. As the the 20th century was defined by challenge, so too will the 21st. So the question is not \u201cWho is to blame?\u201d but \u201cWhat can we do? How shall we adapt?\u201d<\/p>\n

Someday not long from now, even the pandemic of COVID-19 will likely earn its place in curriculums throughout the world. What we knew and came to expect may even be different when social distancing ends completely months or even years from now.<\/p>\n

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