“There once was a specter stalking the hazy hot corners of our world,” they will say. “For a time it even stalked Europe, America – and presidents blanched, parliamentarians locked their doors at night. Embassies built high their walls; we took our shoes off in airplanes; we rewrote laws; we built coalitions; we fought one war, then another and another and yet another.” The historians of the future might even be nostalgic. We do like to reminisce about the wars of our past, don’t we? Documentaries on Netflix. “Remember what it was like when…”

Then one day we awoke to realize that it was no more, that it was over – the latest chapter in an amazing book written by a free people determined to preserve our liberty. History. They will talk about it, those who consider such things; and many will lament, as there are many who still lament…