Submitted by: Kurt J Fitsch
The Tipping Point and the Crossroads
By Steve McCannThe United States finds itself at a crossroads, facing a stark reality it can no longer ignore or leave to future generations. We are presently on an irreversible path toward inevitable failure and second-class status. It all started forty-eight years ago, we now can see. The distance America has traveled down this road over the past forty-eight years -- a comparatively short period within the historical life of a nation -- is astounding.
All of us, when we approach the twilight of our years, have one event or a year that is indelibly etched in our memory. For me, it is 1963. I was attending college in Washington, D.C. during one of the most memorable times in the recent history of that city. I was among the 200,000 at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th to hear Martin Luther King deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech. To this day I can still hear his voice and words, as they remain in the forefront of my memory. But the most profound and compelling experience during my years in the United States came three months later on November 25, 1963.
