National Security: San Francisco
It is easier for me to write this weekly column, which I have been doing for 22 years, when I have personal experience with the subject. I made my first visit to San Francisco in July 1967, shortly after turning 19. Yes sports fans: during the Summer of Love, I stood on the corner of Haight and Ashbury Streets. I was positively enthralled with the “City by the Bay.” The beauty, the hills, the trolley cars – I loved it. Never seen a place like that before in my young life. Loved the switchb