SONNY SCOTT All this reminds me of the small girl who said, “Mother, you know that beautiful jug you said had been handed down to us from generation to generation?” Mother replied, “Yes, Ann, what of it?” And Ann answered solemnly, “This generation dropped it.” Attributed to Herbert C. Hoover One of the things that a life’s time of reading history has convinced me is that there are very few new things in human experience.