Letter: Leaders as peacemakers

Let peace begin. With all the argumentative division, threats of violence and actual violence, the age-old quest for peace is as elusive as ever. Peace is a deep need at every level from international relations to family relations to individual internal sanity and contentment.

We need a discussion, debate, and a vote about ways to improve our cultures locally and throughout the world. We need to move toward a more beneficial productive and joyful pursuit of peace. No ground should be left untitled for producing the destructive weeds of future tyrants or terrorists bent on violence to achieve their selfish proclaimed goals whether they appear angelic or satanic.

We urgently need those in power, executive, legislative and judicial, to take the goal of peace to heart and become known as peacemakers so we can all be called the children of God.

I propose to our two Illinois senators and to all in Congress to begin a public discussion to establish a United States Peace Academy paid for by tax-deductible donations. I also propose that preeminent teachers teach the courses toward a degree and commission. The best could be available online to everyone for free paid for by the best imaginative brief commercials. Your supportive ideas and comments are welcome.

As President Biden says, "In God We Trust." Also, he so often says at the end of a speech, "God bless America and God protect our troops."

George E. Bedingfield

Arlington Heights