What lesson can be learned from an old stone wall built during the Nazi occupation of Budapest? It wasn’t until five years later after the tyrannical lockdowns and quarantines that were placed on citizens globally that I realized the link between this story that took place in the Budapest Jewish Ghetto over 80 years ago and what we have just experienced since 2020.

What is it like visiting the 9-11 Memorial in New York City? I had the opportunity to discover the raw emotion that still lingers at this sobering site.

I may be a young woman, but the cost of freedom is not lost to me, especially after having personally seen pieces left of World War II history in both the European and Pacific arenas.