Usually this week we’d be knee deep in the hoopla in the celebratory run-up to the first Saturday in May, but of course this year coronavirus containment concerns have led to the postponement of the Kentucky Derby for the first time since 1945.  Here’s the story of what happened back in ’45. The United States entered World War II in 1941 following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Subsequently the war effort altered daily reality on the American home front as a wartime prioritization of the e ......Read more

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