After some long and arduous years, the extensive loss and destruction of World War II is finally history. At last there are human hopes that peace on Earth is possible. Unfortunately, the atomic bombs used to end that war have opened up a Cold War, bringing other nations into the quest to possess nuclear weapons. Within only five short years, the ideals of democracy and communism will clash violently in an Asian nation called Korea. Failure to Heed is fictional account of those years and how a good many flawed decisions affected one farm family as well as all Americans into the next century and beyond.