well done...

http://www.peacetakescourage.com/Someone's.html

http://www.peacetakescourage.com/DontGiveUp.html

Demolishes all of the platitudes...powerfully. Please post widely.

You brought back nasty deja vu's Wunder. But thanks for posting.

My ex-Marine is out celebrating his birthday tonite - truthfully, a birthday I didn't know if he would have or not. He still won't talk about it.

It should be the final option, the very last option... to loose the dogs of war... not to be left to the whims or expediencies of fools...

God bless your ex-marine... no greater or more noble a deed than to selflessly put his life on the line for the higher ideals of liberty and freedom.

Every life is precious, a universe, an arrow sent into the future from the bows of all previous generations... with all their hopes and dreams at it's tip.

Do we know wht protest the Don't Give Up photos are from? I had not seen them before....

May I borrow your third paragraph for my family genealogy booklet? I think it would make a huge statement as to the seriousness I take one of my "hobbies", as my kids call it.

grammydidi,

You honor my moment of clarity, thank you. It is inspired by my favorite Poet, Kahlil Gibran ( http://leb.net/gibran/ )from a passage in one of his books, The Prophet... in the chapter on children. He said it much better... I was only paraphrasing.

I am deeply touched... Please, with my blessings,
-vmaus

What will you do?

All three videos were brilliant Wundermaus. How can anyone fail to be moved by them?