Dear Editor: We are a nation in distress

Dear Editor,

We are a nation in distress.

I carried an inverted US Flag at a protest this weekend for the first time. For the unfamiliar, an inverted flag indicates dire distress. Everyone may not agree that our nation is in dire distress, but I am quite certain that Renee Good and Alex Pretti's families consider it so.

My criteria for dire distress follows: Japan is six months from a nuclear weapon with South Korea and others close behind, Ukraine is freezing to death from Russian aggression due to our broken promise to defend them, and our long-time allies in NATO have labeled us unreliable...