Leonard Pitts Jr.: And so this is Christmas
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Dec 06, 2020
2 minutes
And so this is Christmas.
So sang John Lennon in 1971. The Vietnam War took 2,414 American lives that year, so the song was a prayer of harmony and peace with a scrim of irony. Nor did the irony end there. Lennon was shot to death nine years later, 40 years ago Tuesday.
And if the events of 1971 seemed sharply at odds with
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