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If you're a 99-year-old WWII veteran who is compos mentis and wants to take fly to the White House to meet seven other elderly survivors and celebrate VE Day, I reckon that should be your choice. nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/…
If my granddaughter were agitating for the event to be cancelled because she's worried about me, I would say, "I'm not going to live much longer anyway. Before I die, I want to get together with my war buddies one more time."
And if she went to the NYT to agitate for the event to be cancelled, I'd probably be vexed at being infantilized.
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