EDITOR’S COLUMN – ‘Suppose they gave a war and nobody came?’

A cartoonish poster with that phrase hung in my childhood home. The line comes from a movie made the year I was born — a film I’ve never actually seen — but the title stuck with me.

I was in Lamaze class the night the first Gulf War started. Someone wheeled in a television so we could watch the breaking news.

Everything I’d been taught growing up said this was it — the Book of…