(Continued from my previous post.) We'll be safe here, the director of the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research told me, the night of the day the Yom Kippur War began. And we were. On that Yom Kippur--October 6, 1973--Egypt and Syria had launched a coordinated attack across the … [Read more...]
These Do I Remember – COVID-19 and the Yom Kippur War (Part 1)
How quickly it all came upon us. Not that we couldn't have seen it coming--we knew what COVID-19 was doing to Italy, which is a whole lot closer to us than China. Yet we continued to deny. Even last week, I still imagined it likely that the bookstore launch of Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story … [Read more...]
