Wisdom of the Ages

I was sitting at breakfast this morning with my granddaughter, Rose. The New York Times headline “Truck Attack on French Crowd; Scores Die” sat ominously on the counter next to us. I was trying to explain to a brilliant nine year old that a man had driven a truck through a crowd of people in France and killed at least 80, many of them children. Rose’s question was simple, “Didn’t anyone teach him the Golden Rule?” And all I could say was, “probably not”.

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