Steve G. Sweetman is a Vietnam era veteran, a retired paramedic firefighter of twenty-five years, a local politician, a ship's captain, an award-winning public speaker, and a university professor who teaches American and World history, philosophy, humanities, and pre-hospital emergency medicine. He wrote this book to fulfill one objective: to stir up in the reader that sense of wonder that causes one to question everything and discover again that curiosity he or she was born with, which has been stripped away by society's demand for conformity. Steve lives in Florida.