The World Since I Was Born | The American Spectator

The World Since I Was Born | The American Spectator:
"Thanks to America, it’s been a miracle.
So, a few days ago was my 73rd birthday.
I spent it in Rancho Mirage, near Palm Springs, with my wife and our dog, Julie, and my wife’s nurse, Gemma.
I swam twice each day, on my back, looking up at the day and night sky through the palm fronds and this is what I thought:
Life in America has improved so much since I was born, life in this world has improved so much since I was born that it’s almost unbelievable.
When I was born, Hitler was still ruling much of Europe.
Close to 10,000 Jews a day were being killed by the Nazis.
The worst crimes in history, the Soviet mass killings and the Holocaust, were still raging.
That’s all over now.
There were killings by the tens of millions in China, too, when the Communists took over, and that was when I was a child.
That’s all over now.
Germany is one of the most free countries on earth.
There is no more USSR.
Russia has serious problems, but it’s nothing like the killing field it was.
China is now an industrial powerhouse whose people eat better and live better than could have been imagined even forty years ago, all thanks to a small measure of freedom and an immense measure of capitalism.
The people and nations of Southeast Asia, after a series of horror shows, are booming, becoming industrial and high tech powerhouses, too.
Freedom and prosperity have made the greatest advances of all time, just in my lifetime… all patterned after our own America..."
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