In The American Condition Richard Goodwin wrote that for many Americans, the last community they knew was in their high school. In Palmerton today I had lunch with a group of high school friends. We don’t reminisce much about our school days. We’ve done that years ago. While I am not usually considered a very social person, I showed up and enjoyed the company.
We graduated from Palmerton High 58 years ago. The Zinc Company was still going strong, and Dwight Eisenhower was president. We have seen our parents and some of our friends die, children and grandchildren come along, the Vietnam War, the collapse of the U.S.S.R., and now the worst president in U.S. history.
Through it all we have remained friends. Maybe Richard Goodwin was right.
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