Protect and to Serve

Winston Sanks

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• Protect
• Biography
• Serve
• Autobiography
• Life

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• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 20 mars 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669813781
• Langue: English

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Protect and to Serve
The Life of Winston Anton Sanks
Winston Sanks

Copyright © 2022 by Winston Sanks.
 
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Contents
Chapter 1 Service
Chapter 2 The Republic of Plato
Chapter 3 The Leviathan
Chapter 4 Common Sense, Thomas Paine
Chapter 5 The Gospel of Wealth, Andrew Carnegie
Chapter 6 The United States Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Detachment 155
Chapter 7 The University of Miami
Chapter 8 The Analects
Chapter 9 The United States Air Force Academy
Chapter 10 The Principia Mathematica
Chapter 11 Hansom Air Force Base
Chapter 12 Naval Consolidated Brig Chesapeake
Chapter 13 Seattle-Tacoma Airport
Chapter 14 Tokyo, Japan
Chapter 15 Seoul, South Korea
Chapter 16 Tokyo, Japan (Part Two)
Chapter 17 Singapore
Chapter 18 Hong Kong
Chapter 19 Kigali, Rwanda
Chapter 20 Laughlin Air Force Base
Chapter 21 Happiness
Chapter 22 Concord
Chapter 23 Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy
Chapter 24 15 March 2019
Chapter 25 The Hult International Business School
Chapter 26 Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law
 
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24 November 2020
Winston Sanks
Interpreter, Concord Museum
200 Lexington Road, Concord, Massachusetts 01742
Introduction: The Congress of the World
1. Good morning, I hope that this narrative finds well. My name is Winston and I am writing in order to provide, if the inclusion of this supplementary information might not be intrusive, a research essay in support of my advocacy for the integration of existing international law and the creation of a new governing body, which I have termed the ‘Congress of the United States of Earth.’ This body would serve to protect global commerce, unify the international community, and promote scientific development. With the above being stated, if I may, I would like to briefly introduce myself: I am currently a resident of Brighton, Massachusetts, and I serve as a docent at the Museum of Concord which preserves the writings of authors Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Louisa May Alcott. I have an appreciation for American transcendentalist philosophy and I am an activist for international justice.
2. I was born at the United States Air Force Academy hospital in Colorado Springs, Colorado, into a family which has a legacy of service in our United States armed forces. For example, my grandfather, Royce Winston Sanks, retired in Colorado Springs as a Master Sergeant after having served for twenty-four years as a fuels maintenance specialist in the United States Air Force; my mother, my father, and two of my uncles served in the military as well. I graduated from the United States Air Force Academy on 28 May 2015 as the outstanding cadet in citizenship and the outstanding cadet group one first class cadet with a bachelor of science degree in astronautical engineering. During my studies I found many parallels between the ethos of ancient Hellenic cultures, such as the city-state of Sparta, and the Core Values of the United States Air Force: Integrity First, Service Before Self, and Excellence in All We Do. Upon graduation from the United States Air Force Academy I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, in a similar manner to that vow sworn by the Spartans to defend their home at the completion of the agoge . This commitment has defined my character as a servant leader. As an example, in the Apophthegmata Laconia (the Sayings of the Spartans), Plutarch describes a Spartan mother’s acceptance of the deaths of her sons in the name of the fatherland,

One woman sent forth her sons, five in number, to war, and, standing in the outskirts of the city, she awaited anxiously the outcome of the battle. And when someone arrived and, in answer to her inquiry, reported that all her sons had met death, she said, ‘I did not inquire about that, you vile varlet, but how fares our country?’ And when he declared that [Sparta] was victorious, ‘Then,’ she said, ‘I accept gladly also the death of my sons.’ (Babbit).
3. As the result of these lessons, I have accepted responsibility for the safety and well-being of the citizens of my polis , the United States of America. Therefore, I have worked in my sphere of influence to help my fellow Americans reach his or her highest ‘self-actualized’ manifestation as described by psychologist Abraham Maslow. For example, on 24 April 2014, while I served as the president of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) outreach club, a 437-cadet-strong organization, I helped to conduct a school visit to Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy, a title one school (Jack Swigert Academy is located in an economically disadvantaged region of southern Colorado Springs and hosts an 80% minority student body of whom 90% are enrolled in a free or reduced lunch program), where students were able to ask questions live to astronauts aboard the International Space Station (you can read more about the endeavor here , watch the uplink here , and learn more about the Air Force Academy’s STEM outreach program here and here ). Thereafter, students participated in hands-on science and engineering activities with Air Force Academy cadets for the remainder of the school day. Similar opportunities were provided to students at the Atlas Preparatory School on 11 November 2013, Evans Elementary School on 22 February 2013, and Huerta-Chavez Academy on 12 November 2012. Our motivation for engaging the community was twofold: first, we enjoyed inspiring local students to see a future for themselves that they may not have seen otherwise. Second, the cultivation of our talent pool of American scientists and engineers remains a national priority if the United States is to retain preeminence in global and extraterrestrial affairs.
4. I am confident that the United States stands at a technological precipice wherein we are once again able heal the divisions which exist across our society as we once did in the 1960s through the Apollo program. My vision for the future of America’s endeavors in space is encapsulated in a project that I have named “The Dionysus Program” (please see figures one and two) which is so named after Friedrich Nietzsche’s interpretation of classical Greek mythology: the God Dionysus stands as a representation of passion and chaos against Apollo, the God of order and reason. The endeavor is related to the deployment of a novel Earth-to-orbit delivery system which may reduce launch costs from the current figure of approximately $4,000 per kilogram to $100 per kilogram, and the basis for this space mission architecture was approved for presentation by the United States Air Force Academy at the 13 th International Conference on Space Operations on 5 May 2014 in Pasadena, California. I have described the concept in a two -minute video statement here in addition to a brief summary below:
On 13 April 2029 an international consortium will launch several spacecraft to ‘capture’ an asteroid which will closely approach the Earth in order to raise a space elevator. “The Dionysus Program” represents an opportunity to 1) provide propellant-free travel to distant locations in the solar system; 2) to create a safer electromagnetic environment in orbit for humans and spacecraft by discharging the Van Allen radiation belts; 3) to furnish economical access to non-carbon-based fuel sources on the moon such as the isotope Helium-Three, which is valued at 3 billion dollars per ton, for use in clean nuclear fusion reactors; and 4) to peacefully unify the international community in a common cause such that we may refocus our energies on the true enemies of mankind as stated by President John F. Kennedy during his 1961 inaugural address: “tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.”
5. While an undergraduate student studying aerospace engineering at the University of Miami, prior to my attendance at the United States Air Force Academy, I served as a leader in an activist organization called Students Toward a New Democracy or STAND . The association worked with local religious parishes and trade unions such as the Service Employees International Union to ensure that occupational safety regulations were upheld for grounds maintainers, janitorial staff, and food service professionals at the university. The members of STAND held marches with clergy and labor leaders in order to secure benefits for the University of Miami as a whole: the students and professionals of the academic community recognized that the prosperity of the institution must begin first with adequate funding for those who provided the foundation upon which we all relied. As a result of this experience as an activist, I began to research