How we resolve problems may determine world's fate

America — the longest-enduring nation without kings or dictators that ever existed on this planet: free men and women governing ourselves.

We should not allow a brief few years of discord to disrupt our enduring liberty and freedoms. Vast America, from the Eastern Atlantic coast to the bountiful heartland, the Rocky Mountains and deserts, the southern gulf coast, and the glorious Pacific Ocean.

The Native Americans lost their homeland. "New America" created roads, farms, cities, factories, schools, homes, and hospitals. Should we apologize to "God?"

Always the killings: weapons. Murder. Men killing men. Peace … always temporary. Will it never end? Education and intelligence: no matter. Always the killing over land, fueled by separate religions which all claim their "god" offers love and peace to the "faithful," but some faiths proclaiming death to non-believers.

Our present political, environmental and pollution fears and challenges or white versus Black, judging people by skin color or ethnicity or religious beliefs and immigrant explosions cannot be allowed to be insurmountable. The resolution of what problems we face in America may also determine the survival of mankind on this beautiful planet we call Earth.

JAMES RICHARD JOHNSON

Clark Fork