It has been interesting to have been born at a time to have witnessed probably the fastest growing time of history during my tenure on earth. In my youth, I was surrounded by grandparents born in the 19th century who fought in the first world war and introduced us to international relations as an important part of history to be.
My parents rode in some of the first automobiles and I watched some of the first television shows. I saw the beginning of space travel and the first man on the moon. I was there to see the computer grow from a single machine in a huge room to something almost everyone in our country carries in their pocket.
Now I get to see a Congress that does nothing but engage in an ongoing war for control by its political parties, a Middle East that has demonstrated that it hasn’t given up on the destruction of everyone who isn’t one of them, and a battle in Ukraine that demonstrates a never-ending drive by everyone with nuclear capability to have power over everyone else with nuclear capability. Certainly then, unless there is another unforeseeable change in the offing very, very soon, I am seeing the beginning of the end of the world itself. All in my lifetime.
Harold R. Pettus
Everett
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