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ADAPT: the word today and several other days in history By Phillip Coffey: ADAPT. The word of the day and everyday is 'adapt,' among others like all those included in the scriptures of 'Faith, Hope, and Charity' - 'The Big three'. Everything evolves but we must always hold the scriptures in high regard. The scriptures are often the most difficult to follow in crisis of war, famine, plagues, or infestations that we presently fear. In my lifetime the first crisis among many others on the national or world scene that I recall was the 'Cuban Missile crisis'. My understanding is that the proverbial 'doomsday clock ' approached the dreaded 12:00 o'clock at its closest in my lifetime at that point. I was very young but I understood and could feel the fear among my older and wiser kin. That fear was removed when the Russians removed their missiles from the Western Hemisphere. Through negotiations between Khrushchev and President Kennedy we later learned as a nation that we had to make concessions by removing missiles from Turkey pointed toward 'Russia". We adapted to the new reality of being more fearful and cautious with our exchanges with the U.S.S.R.. On November 22,1963 President Kennedy was assassinated. Our collective innocence of the 50s of our national view was lost forever when the sound of the distant assassin's discharged bullet in Dallas Texas entered our consciousness. Multiple conspiracy theories were brought forward to explain the rationale and true source of the horrible deed. The Warren Commissions findings that there was no conspiracy was not and will never be accepted by the general public. Since that Autumn day in '63 we question everything put forth by the Government including the Vietnam War, "War on Poverty" initiated by President Johnson, and we are never comfortable about race relations that periodically raises its 'ugly head'. We have had to adapt to these new and aging realities. In the early 70s there was a break-in that was conducted in the Democratic Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. The Watergate deal will always be a 'head scratcher' to me. Why ? Richard Nixon won by a landslide in '72. Please, I don't want to debate the Watergate debacle but I think there was a lot of paranoia and power mixed up in the whole mess. I watched almost all of the 'Watergate Hearings' live. There have been countless, needless Congressional Hearings from both sides of the aisle since the Watergate debacle. Watergate will always be a part of our lexicon. We now have had to adapt to the new reality of all of us being skeptical to everything coming from our leaders in Washington D.C. or at the state level. There have been many more adaptions that we have had to make in the 40 plus years since 'Watergate" as a nation but I am skipping to 9-11. (I must soak up some of this fleeting sunshine). We will not ever understand why at any reasonable level why those low life martyr wanna be's attacked us and tried without any success to destroy our principles totally. We became united against a common foe not clearly defined. We had to adapt to the reality that there are fanatics from every political extreme direction imaginable that seek to destroy our way of life which includes 'the pursuit of life, liberty and Justice'. Now jutting out invisibly in our mist is our new foe - the Covid-19 - a virus that has disrupted our lives and led to fatalities and much fear. Over time such maladies have come in different forms all of which were invisible to the unaided eye. The last great pandemic was the Spanish Influenza which peaked in its destructive path in 1918. There have been many other epidemics in history including but not limited to 'The Bubonic Plaque', Malaria, Typhoid Fever, Tuberculosis, Smallpox, Measles, Rheumatic Fever and countless others I can not readily recall. Since the introduction of the Smallpox vaccine in the late 1700s there have been medical cures/resistance introduced. Dr. Fleming discovered Penicillin about 1928. There has been so many medical advancements since 1928. Now we must adapt to another new reality which is not totally defined yet. Time will tell. I have never been asked to speak to a group. I have not earned it nor am I accomplished enough to speak before any group about anything. I have a phobia issue that creeps within slightly under the radar about public speaking. If I were ever asked to speak before a Graduating class of any denomination I would give the shortest commencement speech in the history of Public speaking; It would be one word 'ADAPT' and then I bet I would walk off stage to a stunned roar of cheers and jeers. This story was posted on 2020-04-03 19:11:16
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