The Big One

We Tivo'd the new Ken Burns documentary, The War, and made it through the first 2 1/2 hours last night. It's very good. The story line follows four towns (Luverne, MN; Waterbury, CT; Sacramento, CA; and Mobile, AL), the effect of the war on them and some of their residents and soldiers. In a segment about Luverne right after Pearl Harbor, they showed a grainy film of a couple of kids having a great time being towed snow-skiing behind a car. I was telling Dara, "My father told me the only skiing he ever did was behind a car." Not more than a minute later, they showed a picture of a street sign in Luverne. One arrow pointed leftward: Pipestone, 27 miles. Maybe that was Dad they were showing!