Has it really been 30 years?
In January 1991, I made a driving tour of Civil War battlefields that took me through Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi (with an extended side trip at the end to visit the CAF museum which at that time was in Harlingen, Texas). On the evening of January 16, I found myself in a Jackson, Tennessee, mall shopping for music and killing time. If I know me, I probably hit the K-B Toys to look at models and die-cast metal airplanes. Thinking about finding some dinner, I became aware of hushed voices and a crowd gathered outside a store with TVs in front. News organizations were reporting the early moments of Desert Storm, mostly talking heads and spotty audio from CNN correspondents in Baghdad. I was back in my motel room when President…