As a young boy growing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s in Appleton,Wisconsin, the first really big political and world news that I read that exposed me to the precariousness of our existence in the world was the gunning down of our president, John F. Kennedy, on November 22, 1962.

Inaugurated as president on January 20, 1960, After he was sworn into office by Chief Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren, I watched and listened attentively to President Kennedy articulate a positive future for the world, starting with our own country, bu not forgetting the rest of our Western Hemisphere, nor the remainder of the world’s countries, many whom are continuing today to be economically struggling, several on the verge of massive starvation, famine, deadly heat waves, extreme weather patterns, and submergence by rising ocean waters and relentless rainfall and all- consuming fires causing unimaginable losses and extinction of species.

To make matters worse, we have a president who cares only in “Making America First”, and who doesn’t appear to recognize previous treaties signed by preceding U.S. presidents, in such vital topics as greenhouse gas and particulate emissions and nuclear weapons proliferation in the world, increasing the possibility of nuclear war that could end all life son earth.

To Be Continued …