BY BRUCE WARREN
Los Alamos

I was sorting out some old paperwork recently and came upon this essay, which I wrote when I was 13 and a student in the Freshman Class at Sutherland, Nebraska. The America it describes is no longer recognizable today. All of the freedoms it mentions are under attack by the current administration. The Constitution is being shredded in order to give Trump authoritarian powers. In 1956, memories of World War II and its epic battle to defend democracy were still very strong. Today, we need to fight the internal enemies of democracy that are running our government.