Author Description

"Poetry is a Deadly Weapon" is a collection of over 50 poems which started over sixty years ago. It is being published in 2024 because poetic wording can be better than straight prose to reach people's minds. It can use humor, and words in unusual ways to be more educational! People learn more, and faster, if they enjoy learning! This book may create interest in actual science and true history! Real appreciation of the Universe begins when you recognize it is impossible to understand more than a small fraction of everything that excites your curiosity! Read the poem "2024 - To Be, or Not To Be?" Elections in November 2024 will have a profound effect in shaping both the United States of America, and the world's future! Some people can compare, and contrast today's world to the late 1930's! Time is removing people who actually remember the Day the Second World War ended! Our country now has citizens old enough to vote who were born after September 11, 2001! "Education" has become a function of "public schools," major media, late night television, and the World Wide Web. How many people are able to discern between actual truth versus propaganda? We can learn from history! "Citizenship is not just a privilege; it is the duty and obligation of every member of society". – Benjamin Franklin. "The people are the only legitimate fountain of power." -- James Madison. “Free men have arms; slaves do not.” -- William Blackstone. "Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." – John Adams. "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." – Abraham Lincoln. "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." – John F. Kennedy. Will United States citizens, and people in other countries, recognize governments are supposed to serve people? Governments of, by, and for the government become dictators, and reduce those within their grasp to slavery! True his