Imaginations can be wonderful and creative things to have in our lives.

Think about how some imaginations many years ago brought us visionary things such as the "Buck Rogers in the 21st Century" comic strip in the 1930s, or Dick Tracy and his two-way wrist radio.

It makes one wonder how those imaginations brought on such creative ideas.

Wilmer Bresee of Oneonta had a good imagination. As a youngster, he was a voracious reader and loved to write.

Wilmer was a regular literary contributor to The Echo in the early 1920s, when that Oneonta High School publication was much different than what we know today.

One poem Wilmer wrote at that time was called "A Battle of The Future." It was quite visionary for the time period, if you can discount some of the years mentioned in the poem as being inaccurate.

The opening portion of the poem read:

"Twas in the year two thousand five,

"Between the night and day,

"Of ten million men, none escaped alive, [an error occurred while processing this directive]