When Peggy Noonan writes from the heart about American lives, few can do it better. Here she picks up a reference Sen. Joni Ernst made in her GOP response to the SOTU.
Blogging for The Wall Street Journal, Peggy remembers growing up in a household where the kids had one pair of shoes at a time. I grew up in such a home, and never felt underprivileged. We didn't need the bread bags in SoCal where rain was as bad as it got, but we had wet feet sometimes.