I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.
You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.
People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.