I finally watched #TheDeerHunter. I was ok up until the shot that didn't hit the deer.
From that point on I saw my older friends, sucked into an insanity not of their making; living a life emphasized by deaths so remote to feel surreal. But they came home.
Then the #BerlinWall fell and small "d" democracy declared victory. The #USSR was dissolved. Earth was on the path to democratic peace.