You are all so good to read.

I am 57, I just now happened to remember that when I was 7 or 8 or so, in elementary school, I was making crayon drawings of the citadel on the river. I remember as well (I think) being taught that this was the hope of the future, that finally mankind was going to rise above its basest instincts and make the world better for everyone. What happened? Well we all know what happened, we all know how things turned out. Not for the good. Ah, what we wouldn’t give for the good old days of idealism. But I don’t particularly fault Truman or Eisenhower or Steveson. Quite frankly I fault communism. I fault the believers of the socialist ideal, I fault the hypocrisy of the NY Times, feigning empathy for the ‘common’ man while living the good life. I fault those in the university’s and college’s who felt that ‘Marxist theory’s’ were a valid political response to the problems that were facing the world. That the enslaving and death of millions was a solution to the inequities of life. I fault those who have gone along to get along. I fault myself for given credence to many of these misguided ideas, for so long. The world was due for a change, this country was due for a change, and the UN is most certainly due for a change. Let us hope that the winds of change persist.