The Great Modern Delimma
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The author who is 82 years old and of sound mind is reflecting on the events and developments that have occurred during his lifetime. There seems to be an urgent need to get these observations written for the value they may have to readers of the work if any. The period includes the great depression of the late 1920's and 1930's until World War II, the postwar period, the Korean conflict, involvement in Vietman, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the resignation by President Richard Nixon, the Iran hostage crisis, the end of the cold war, Bosnia, President William Jefferson Clinton impeached then acquitted, acts of terror here and over the world. Then the world war on terror since the 9/11/2001 world trade center pentagon buildings attacks with one attack heroically prevented. Now we are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq with the end out of sight America seems to be getting divided on the question of the direction to take in this action, this is a dilemma.During the same period the writter has seen great advances in medical care in the treatment of desease and injury. Preventive measures have eliminated or reduced the incidence of some highly fatal and crippling very contagious diseases through immunization. There were major developments in all forms of transportation and in communication. Data storage and processing systems that effect life in all areas of health, education. business and pleasure have become unremarkable. We are in a time in which knowledge is advancing so rapidly that each of us is falling farther behind every second. The dillemma is that societies have failed to overcome their differences due to greed and a desire to dominate to the extent that human dignity is nonexistant for a great many people. The goal is to point out a number of problem areas and look at possible actions toward some remedy for them. In no stretch of imagination can one cover all situations that exist in the world but we must be aware of the grave danger to the way of life free societies face today.
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The author having spent many years observing events around him both locally and worldwide finds the world situation very disturbing. He thinks that he has a background that is unique in many ways and that its uniqueness leads him to veiw the situation in an unusual way. As one reads the beginning of the work,, this will become apparent. He was born in a time of post World War 1 boom called the roaring twenties. The boom ended in 1929 with the great stock market crash. Suddenly fortunes were lost and much of the world entered the great depression. His early education was in a very small one-room, one-teacher school. He lived on a large cotton plantation where there were only two white families and a large number of black families. His father was the company bookkeeper and storekeeper. Later his home was in a small Southeast Arkansas town with a very good public school. He had many different jobs through the years and spent most of his workin years teaching high school math and science. A physical condition made him unfit for service in battle (deaf in the right ear) so he has no service record. During World War II, he worked in Washington DC in the war department. He has a BSE degree earned at the University of Arkansas, Monticello. The writer retired from teaching in 1987 and since kept active in church, community and service club work and activities.