This work attempts to present history in such a way as to understand how America got to where it currently is. Some history and scientific theory, regarding systems both static and dynamic, are provided by Dr. H. Leuenberger in the foreword. We have made this effort to show where we have come from, where we are, and a way to determine the route we should take-- the destination towards which we must make immediate progress to survive. Earth and all on it, which may be thought of as a system, is ailing because some of its individual components have been infected and the disease is spreading. In a family, when one or more members are not well, the unit does not function as it should. When that is the case, all members of the family should focus on helping the one, or those, in understanding the detriment and using all scientific resources and knowledge of the problem(s) until it is solved and harmony restored. Understanding the health concern requires looking at past attempts, results, and the latest knowledge about it available, history and science, respectively. In this regard, in the ethical search for and presentation of truth, history, and science, are understood by educated people to be humanity's greatest resources. History, as it can most accurately be determined, and science, the empirical evaluation of the facts given our greatest knowledge, must be the guides for where we go, next. Sometimes, all of the facts are not known, and an extrapolation or hypothesis may be drawn. Some of this history does that, allowing readers to form their own opinion. I am not sure a definitive conclusion can be arrived at, there. Science, however, as reported by Dr. H. Leuenberger, offers potential solution to age-old problems of system failure that history is full of, and, perhaps, a brighter future. Through business and science education, in college, the seeds of literature may have fallen in the most fertile portion of my brain, perhaps, the right side. Through poetic dabbling, I became ever more passionate about writing and after years of throwing petals from the pinnacle of technology finally took the plunge into the long beckoning river of literature that has flowed through human history since Beowulf, and before. Alas, due to prior career necessity, it wasn't until retirement that I took the splash

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