by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 23, 2020 | Back to the land, coronavirus, COVID-19, draft lottery, Vietnam
I have four grandchildren between the ages of 18 and 23. I’ve told them that coronavirus is their Vietnam. It will be the event they will remember when they are my age, as I remember Vietnam for its horror and its impact on my life. I was born in 1942, so skated by...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 15, 2012 | Alvin Josephy, draft lottery, Fishtrap Vietnam, fur trade, girls say no, Hudson’s Bay Company, Jefferson's slaves, John Adams and slavery, Valerie Miner, Vietnam legacy
When he wrote the essay on the Hudson’s Bay Company and the Indians, Alvin Josephy took great pains to place it all in historical context. And he credited the company with high mindedness in establishing standards for dealing with the Indians—the traders were not to...
