It’s hard to remember what the Bronx was like then. Painful to remember. The Bronx was boarded up or burning. It had almost burned to the ground. Like Dresden after the war, they said. And they meant after World War II, when Dresden had been carpet bombed by the Allies and reduced to rubble and ash, back when we played to win and played for keeps, so we could defeat Fascism. When the War was World War II. Because Vietnam as just over then, and nobody wanted to talk about it. When it was still an open wound.
