The Apollo Missions
Supplanted by
The Mission to police the world with Stealth Jet nuclear bombs, and the most advanced nuclear missiles ever land & sea
Yet still completely vulnerable to the world's smallest invaders, destroyers of health & home
This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round blue objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. SARS-CoV-2, also known as 2019-nCoV, is the virus that causes COVID-19. The virus shown was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Credit: NIAID-RML
We squandered our post WWII potential peacetime inheritance,
and every possible peace dividend since, on massive doomsday machine weaponries,
leaving ourselves incapable of even a fair fight, or mustering any effective fight,
against a tiny microbe.
My wife and I have traveled down to Cincinnati to help our
daughter Bridget pregnant 6th month, and her husband who are both
working from home under Covid 19 precautions, while they also care for 1 year
old Bruce at home due to daycare closure. With our medical backgrounds we reviewed our
absence of carrier risk, and decided we could with good practices be safe help for
them.
On the trip the freeway road sign states, “Wapakoneta: First
on the Moon,” commemorating the success of one of this town’s own, Astronaut Neil
Armstrong. His “one small step for man,
one giant leap for mankind,” lives in our national consciousness.
hose Apollo missions lasted from 1969 till
1972, and 11 other U. S. men landed on the moon. Many have been the NASA plans since, but they’re
been no further such expeditions. Since
1972 the U.S. has pivoted from exploring the heavens, to trampling down the people
of S. E. Asia. plodded through their rice
paddies with some 2 million of their dead in the wake. For ourselves, 50,000 U.S. soldiers dead
there, and 500,000 of veteran lives eventually destroyed back in our homeland. Nonstop wars entangle us somewhere on earth
ever since.
We exchanged a major triumph of inquisitive science, for the
glitter of hi-tech military power grabs—ongoing hot & cold wars snuffing out those
days of peaceful aspirations. I remember
the hope, having a young president who wanted a better world, worldwide. Who coupled a mission to land on the moon,
with a patriotic invitation to join the Peace Corps, and was trying to pull us out of Vietnam, before he was shot down dead in Dallas.
was in high school at that time, and felt the world
starting to shift {after its brief “cold” spell post WWII} into hotter &
hotter scattered but unrelenting war gear.
The U.S. had then decided to be the very best at war. And we’ve become the world’s most profitable prolific
war machine.
And now the world has the chance to turn again. The U.S. can become great again, leading the
nations towards a peace economy that helps provide for everyone’s needs, that
conquers the terrible scourges of wars, pandemic, and poverty. A call to cease all the world's armed conflicts has been made by the head of the United Nations. Invest the world’s intelligence and efforts
into beating a common enemy health destroyer, for the benefit of all—learning how
to settle conflict without the bloodshed of the battlefield in the bargain.
In sixth grade my juvenile aspirations were to be a priest-scientist-astronaut. It was the era of Sputnik then Telstar—they could
be seen in the night sky over our Minneapolis neighborhood’s schoolyard. I soon armed myself with a slide-rule, eager
to learn every lesson solve every math problem.
And now my daughter Kathleen has put into significant practical bioscience accomplishment* on the ground, what I only had in vague outer-space imagination. In addition to awards and publications, she’s
today in the growing group of those working to target the coronavirus cell
structure.
Another daughter Maura, and all our extended family have
been so supportive doing their parts in Kathleen’s success, and each in their
own way on the front-line against this viral threat, and for positive equitable
progress in this world—having faith in each other, and in a merciful loving God.
Sources
* "The 20 under 40: Inside the next generation of biopharma leaders"-- from Endpoints News, 4-6-2020
Please contact me at mccpax@gmail.com, if you want to read the "Endpoints" article on Kathleen McCarthy's achievements. Also -- A pdf of article is in a 2nd email I've sent. Or--To read the article on Kathleen's achievement, you have to google "The 20 under 40: Inside the next
generation of biopharma leaders" and free subscribe to the professional emagazine, "Endpoints." Scroll down to the article section on her success with Skyhawk, a genetics medicine company she co-founded.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/un-chief-calls-for-immediate-global-ceasefire-amid-covid-19-pandemic/
One disaster alters another
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-stops-separating-immigrant-children-at-border-under-coronavirus-emergency-powers-11585701887?cx_testId=3&cx_testVariant=cx_2&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s
Not a serious pandemic?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/world/asia/coronavirus-china-grief-deaths.ht
Bill Gates - on real threat: 2015, and today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6b_wyiwI&feature=emb_rel_end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyFT8qXcOrM
Illumination art by Kathy Brahney
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