Leonard Pitts Jr.: We owe them much better than this
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Nov 30, 2022
2 minutes
Joe Engel died last week.
It’s unlikely you will know the name, especially if you don’t live in Charleston, South Carolina, his hometown since 1949. Joe never wrote a great novel or made a scientific breakthrough. His accomplishment was less gaudy, yet no less significant.
Joe lived to tell.
I met him in 2005 — the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II — on
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