They lived through WWII. What they learned can help us during COVID-19 battle

At the end of her life, my grandmother liked to listen to Vera Lynn. They were the same songs she listened to when she was welding destroyers as a young woman in Southampton during the war, when her hometown was bombed during the Blitz. Every day Vera Lynn would remind her that there would always be an England, that there would be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, and that they would meet again. Vera never offered timelines. She just said that it would happen some sunny day."