Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot

L’entre deux guerres. Between two wars. Or, perhaps, between two lifetimes.

This was the state of my family in the fall of 2000, at the start of a new century and the end of a 50-year era. We had worked and planned for peace. Whether or not we would get it was thrown into serious question on the evening of September 27, 2000.

We were all holding our breath.