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For the Wall Street Occupiers:

          I am 86 years old, born in 1925.  I don’t remember much about the years which led up to the Great Depression of the 1930s, but I remember the depression itself well enough.  I was 7 years old when Franklin D. Roosevelt became president of the U.S.A. in 1933.  In his inaugural address, FDR said of the economic crisis: “Primarily this is because rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and have abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.”

          I was 14 years old when World War II began in Europe in 1939, and 18 years old when I entered the U.S. Navy in the middle of the war in 1943.  Will the present economic crisis lead to another world war?  I deeply hope not.  The wars and other armed actions that we currently have throughout the world are bad enough.

          Keep trying, Occupiers of Wall Street!

          Gordon Fisher     gmfisher7@optonline.net

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