A Romantic Encounter Spoiled by the First Gulf War

Can we be the people who build a new world instead of obsessing over the old? (DN 4.15)

I know exactly where I was at the moment the first Persian Gulf War started:

I was making out with a girl from college.

I begin with this event from my romantic past not to share a salacious story, but to illustrate an essential point. By providing the details, I hope to engender thoughts about what really matters in life.

The backstory

I went to the Univer…