Evanston mayor reflects on political tension at Veterans Day ceremony

Americans haven’t always been grateful to veterans, particularly during politically divisive times, Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss reflected Monday to about 100 people assembled in honor of Veterans Day in Evanston’s Fountain Square. “The Vietnam era is not something that I lived through, but my parents were young adults during the Vietnam era, and I grew up hearing a lot from them about how confused this country got during that time… about how the fact that the turmoil and ferment and opposition to the war, which was an important and legitimate...