Hailed as a great speech, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s inaugural 1961 address to the world held out hope for a better future.
How different our times are today: as ever increasing amounts of scarce financial resources are spent on armaments and we watch as our sons and daughters die in far off lands for reasons unclear to almost all of us, as homeless sleep in our streets, when far too many children live in poverty and want, and when division and indifference define the body politic.
