When the mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters, and friends of the victims of war cry for
their lost loved ones, if all they have to show for their grief and suffering is their pain,
somewhere in each of them they must be asking: why?
God, the love of the victim's family and friends, and the civilized values of the society
the lost loved one grew up to believe in--none of them were enough to prevent the death of
not only the human being...but also all that the dead person was, had faith in, and could
have been.
The only lesson in such cases is that if the dead loved one's cause was just, what he or she believed in and sacrificed for must go on in the hearts and minds of those who cared for and shared the cause.
And the only "legitimate" respect the loved ones can show is that no one should ever suffer such a loss if it can be prevented.
Surely this is why humanity sets aside a special day each year in remembrance.
This chiefly being a record of the role this individual played in the struggle for world peace over the last decade or so, it contains copies of the statements i've made to other and greater "influences" on whether the dream of durable "peace, security, and justice" for "all of us" can be achieved...and at what cost. Their replies are also here.
As 1987 comes to an end (as i begin writing this), i am preparing to devote my time to reviewing and analyzing what i have learned from my "International Diplomatic Work...on a direct basis" for these past years.
When winter winds blow around me but i have something important to do, i always consider and respect that the road to be travelled has been made easier by the people who built the road, who maintain it, and who will be there in future when the needs arise to build new roads and maintain them.
Therefore, in that spirit before i officially terminate my work on behalf of the authorities invested in my name for so long so that i could prepare this work to help the cause of peace, i have examined what the world today is and where it likely will turn tomorrow--and have prepared "summary statements" for those i believe will affect human history the most in the foreseeable future, actually before i anticipate this book will be finished. And where my work has affected their goals--as their goals have affected "all of us"--i have asked them to, like Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, "clarify" what future they would wish for "all of us"...and those they most directly affect the lives of.
It may be that Khomeini's "Islamic fundamentalism," Reagan's "Second American Revolution," Gorbachev's "Glasnost/Perestroika," and Botha's "reform" of apartheid will not be the greatest determinants affecting whether humanity survives to see and live in the Twenty-first Century--and how we live.
British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, since 1817, immortalized not that the Ozymandias threat to humanity millenia ago had endured...but that only the arrogance and folly of his boast had as testament to his vanity.
Respected American historian Barbara Tuchman, author of 'The March of Folly' (about Ozymandias' peers throughout history, whose opinions concerning the peace movement will be included in my book with her kind