Letter: We enter 2018 with red lights flashing

While reading President Truman’s Secretary of State Dean Acheson’s “Present at the Creation,” chapter after chapter nurtured my patriotism and pride in being a fortunate citizen of the USA. History’s hidden nuances, as witnessed by this front-line gentleman and statesman of the events, participants, failures and triumphs of that post-World War II era, gave me much needed comfort and hope in the midst of 2017’s dismal, near calamitous governmental disarray.Alth