I knew it didn't make sense...

It was kind of you, my readers (all three of you) to not call me out on quite the blunder in my midnight entry. See, I was going on about how Lew was born between Kristallnacht and the signing of the armistice treaty. At the time it struck me as odd that those two things would be happening around the same time. And it seems that my history degree and analytical training/reading skills completely failed me at the moment that the post went to publish. Because while November 10 is the eve of Armistice Day, the treaty itself was signed 20 years earlier. Good job, Annie. Do not let my chronological misprint take away from what I expressed about Lew, but it does make for slightly less dreamy writing to say that between the terror of the Holocaust and the 20 year anniversary of the ending of a World War... So we'll focus on Kate Smith and that, perhaps, with the help of Irving Berlin, she was really singing about America being blessed with Lew's presence.