text:  It's not so much that the moments right now give us a sense of optimism, but if we look at the past, we have been through really, really rough times before. Worse than this time, in my judgment. Not worse in my lifetime, but certainly the Civil War, the early days of the Great Depression, the early days of World War II. And each one of those events ended with America coming through with greater strength. You know, when Reagan was shot and people started talking then about we had a sick society,