Yes, It is mostly nostalgic. Not hogwash though. It represents one side of the way it really was. It is that attitude that needs to be brought back; unbounded optimism and a 'we can do anything' spirit.

I was brought here in 1947 from Germany at two years of age. I personally experienced the other side of the 50s. I was a target for bigoted neighbors. I was bullied in school. One day, I crawled onto my mother's lap and asked through tears, "Momma, they said we're N**Is. Are we N**Is. What are N**Is?"

I was a target of the super-patriotic fervor and its ultra nationalist bigotry. Believe me, I am not wrapped up in the warm memories of a time I had no part in. I am experienced in how this world works. Maybe even more so than the average native born American. I have lived in both Americas of the 50s. I saw the other side and by the 60s, I started to experience that other side.

Because life was becoming less oppressive for me, and the Kennedy administration glittered prominently in the firmament of daily life, I adopted the optimism John Kennedy eng****red in the country. I became a liberal and eventually I even became a Liberal (big 'L').

I was committed to Liberal ideology and saw it as the thing that finally opened the door for equal opportunity for all. I ran for local offices as a Liberal. All the while, I was wary of two things that kept reappearing in Liberal conversations. One was how readily my fellow Liberals invoked the name of Hitler and the other was how certain they were of their responsibility for deciding life issues for the "ordinary Americans who obviously were not capable of making those decisions for themselves."

There is a price for everything. The price for getting through the 50s was living in a divided society with prejudice and ine******y. There is less of that today but it is still here. Those things were surely there then but they were also being battled by the people of the 50s. Not by everyone but by enough to ultimately make the difference.

That all went to Hell in the 60s and has been deteriorating faster every year since. The self-certain Left decided it had the responsibility to force the nation onto the "right" path. The Weather Underground, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the SDS and others of the same stripe perverted the gifts of the 50s into the h**e filled and indiscriminate violent assaults on the social fabric of the country.

Proof that I am no genius can be found in my remaining a Liberal until 1995. In the Clinton first term it became unavoidable to see the cliff the 60s had brought us to. Clinton was very much a product of the 60s. Proof that I am not an i***t can be found in my final abandonment of the Liberal ideology.

The optimism of the 50s was replaced by the anger of the 60s. Everything since has been built on a foundation of anger and selfishness. The real progress toward e******y and opportunity that was born in the 50s cannot survive on anger and hatred.

America made a serious wrong turn in the 60s. We need to go back to that time and rebuild our society on a foundation of hope and possibilities. We need to reestablish the foundation we had in the 50s and rebuild America from there.

Please forgive me for making this personal.

Yes, It is mostly nostalgic. Not hogwash though. It represents one side of the way it really was. It is that attitude that needs to be brought back; unbounded optimism and a 'we can do anything' spirit.

I was brought here in 1947 from Germany at two years of age. I personally experienced the other side of the 50s. I was a target for bigoted neighbors. I was bullied in school. One day, I crawled onto my mother's lap and asked through tears, "Momma, they said we're N**Is. Are we N**Is. What are N**Is?"

I was a target of the super-patriotic fervor and its ultra nationalist bigotry. Believe me, I am not wrapped up in the warm memories of a time I had no part in. I am experienced in how this world works. Maybe even more so than the average native born American. I have lived in both Americas of the 50s. I saw the other side and by the 60s, I started to experience that other side.

Because life was becoming less oppressive for me, and the Kennedy administration glittered prominently in the firmament of daily life, I adopted the optimism John Kennedy eng****red in the country. I became a liberal and eventually I even became a Liberal (big 'L').

I was committed to Liberal ideology and saw it as the thing that finally opened the door for equal opportunity for all. I ran for local offices as a Liberal. All the while, I was wary of two things that kept reappearing in Liberal conversations. One was how readily my fellow Liberals invoked the name of Hitler and the other was how certain they were of their responsibility for deciding life issues for the "ordinary Americans who obviously were not capable of making those decisions for themselves."

There is a price for everything. The price for getting through the 50s was living in a divided society with prejudice and ine******y. There is less of that today but it is still here. Those things were surely there then but they were also being battled by the people of the 50s. Not by everyone but by enough to ultimately make the difference.

That all went to Hell in the 60s and has been deteriorating faster every year since. The self-certain Left decided it had the responsibility to force the nation onto the "right" path. The Weather Underground, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the SDS and others of the same stripe perverted the gifts of the 50s into the h**e filled and indiscriminate violent assaults on the social fabric of the country.

Proof that I am no genius can be found in my remaining a Liberal until 1995. In the Clinton first term it became unavoidable to see the cliff the 60s had brought us to. Clinton was very much a product of the 60s. Proof that I am not an i***t can be found in my final abandonment of the Liberal ideology.

The optimism of the 50s was replaced by the anger of the 60s. Everything since has been built on a foundation of anger and selfishness. The real progress toward e******y and opportunity that was born in the 50s cannot survive on anger and hatred.

America made a serious wrong turn in the 60s. We need to go back to that time and rebuild our society on a foundation of hope and possibilities. We need to reestablish the foundation we had in the 50s and rebuild America from there.

Please forgive me for making this personal.

It has been said, "you can't go home again," JW,

The expression gained popularity as the title of Thomas Wolfe's (b.1930-d.1938) novel "You Can't Go Home Again."

It is deeply personal for every living survivor of the 1950's-1960's United States.

In the 1950s, from a macro view, the vast majority within this nation benefited, knowingly or unknowingly, from a Christian foundation because our citizenry and their representative officials had a Christian worldview.

In 1962 and 1963, the SCOTUS officially ordered that the Bible and Prayer exit our school houses.

IN 1973, based on the falsehoods that had been deliberately submitted to them, the SCOTUS declared Roe vs Wade to be the law of our land.

Since the US Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade on January 22 1973 — that was 47 years ago last Wednesday — a culture of death has driven this nation. This death mentality has resulted in the brutal destruction of more than 60 million of our unborn!

All legally murdered in America, while our newly "politically correct" leaders have refused to legally execute murderers of innocent people, mass murderers, serial murderers, sadistic child molesters, torturous rapists, and vile murderous terrorists, those who seek to destroy any peace of mind that had existed in this country and to create chaos and mayhem instead.

The lack of safety and security in our lives also affects our parents, our brothers and sisters, our husbands and wives and our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

All are affected by the abhorrence toward life and the mentality favoring death in this nation. We live in a very perverted and twisted society.

God's Kingdom cannot come soon enough for those with faith in God's prophecies.

As a nation, we have legally murdered more than sixty million (60,000,000), innocent unborn children, and the blood of all their would-be descendants is crying out to God.

Not only does Abel's blood cry out to God from the ground, but also every generation that would be denied life through Abel.

It is also said that, "you can't k**l what is already dead."

It is impossible to return to a nation that we as a people have destroyed, if not as willing participants, as passive bystanders who stood on the sidelines and did nothing, unable or unwilling to absorb the reality of what was occurring.

No one can read the same book twice because the second time you pick it up you discover different events, scenes that previously did not impress you, expressed thoughts that had failed to even register in your mind. The book is just like you left it. The one who has changed is you. This is why you can never go home again.

The demise of this nation since the 1950s is deeply personal for all of us who have lived and continue to live through these decades of terminal absurdity.

We could indeed have done anything. It is what we, as a nation, have done, continue to do, and refuse to correct that will freeze us in our tracks.