Stepping Off The Pedestal
My friend, Ruthy, has died at age 103.
She was born six weeks after President Kennedy, in the summer of 1917.
On the day Ruthy was born, the US had been at war for three months but, although American troops had arrived in Europe, they had yet to enter the French battlefields.
Woodrow Wilson had won reelection in a squeaker a few months before, defeatin…