Caleb Connor
by Art Cerf
Just another bird photo that has nothing to do with the story. Looks nice but is meaningless, just to catch the eye. Nah-nah.
Caleb Connor had the visage of a young man. But he was there when the pyramids were built.
He marched with Roman legions and sailed with Vikings. He survived the Black Death in the 14th century and was good friends with Henry VIII…his daughter, not so much.
He stood with the rebels on Bunker Hill and played cards with Davy Crockett at the Alamo.
He watched Pickett’s Charge from Seminary Ridge in Gettysburg and he rode with the 7th Cavalry to the Little Big Horn.
36 years later, he was on the maiden voyage of Titanic and a few years after that, watched his friends die from the Spanish influenza.
He watched Babe Ruth in the ’20’s and lived through the Great Depression.
He watched Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor and fought at Iwo Jima.
Connor traveled in JFK’s motorcade in Dallas and watched Nixon’s operatives arrested at the Watergate.
He was in New York for 9/11 and still there in 2020 when the Corona virus struck.
He tried to follow self quarantine measures but the boredom got to him so he roamed New York’s hospitals at night. He could actually see the virus…little red dots wafting through the air. And he could see death on the faces of patients, nurses and doctors…an almost invisible circle on their foreheads.
He walked into the men’s room, wondering when will all this pain and suffering end? He splashed some cold water on his face and looked up into the mirror and had his answer.
