By Dave Marquard March 20, 2020 “We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.”--- Mark Twain Some things don’t change. Mark Twain’s sense of humor causes laughter today just as it did 140 years ago. Even today he is often lauded as the greatest humorist in American history. I am sure he would have had a funny take on our modern welding technology if he were alive today. Reputations have a way of sticking through the ages. I can imagine the type of humor Twain might have written had he known about robotic welding or additive manufacturing, for example. The jolt of cataclysmic historical events always passes and we move on from them. But we remember a lot about them. All WEMCO members remember 9/11 and where they were and how they heard about it. All WEMCO members remember Columbine. The events passed and we recovered but the impact and change they caused altered our way of life in a permanent way. When was the last time any of us did not have to go through security at an airport? When was the last time we felt schools were completely safe for our children? The events passed. The impact and fallout from them lingers and stays with us. Now we are faced with another cataclysmic event that is changing our lives: the arrival of the Coronavirus. This too won’t pass because it has changed us as much as 9/11 did. Social distancing, hand sanitation, look