Staying in the Middle of the Patch

What a scary world I live in today.  My generation was young when we "tore down the Berlin wall" and when Bill Clinton took office as president of the United States.  We are approaching our fifties and the world has erupted once more into war and the subject of walls have sprung up from Mexico to the Balkans.

The nineties began with a war, blossomed into a debt free national treasury and a pretty decent standard of living, then ended with the faintest hint of trouble on the wind.  Don't Ask, Don't Tell whisked me out of the military as the new century opened and then on September 11th, 2001, my country went into collective shock.

We have yet to recover.