My father should have known better. He was a college graduate, a Army veteran of strategic bombing missions over Japan in 1945, and by the time I was old enough to understand what other people were saying to me about him, a respected figure in our community. I have distinct memories, corroborated by my elders when I was old enough to ask about them, of having been taken at the age of five for special intelligence testing at Boston University, that he knew there was something out of the ordinary about Read more [...]