This coming from you is very special to me. I felt wholly vulnerable about publishing portions of it, but I want to announce to all who might hear that war not only kills people but involves the sexual assault, torture and death of women, and not a few, but in wars US has been involved in, thousands of women - I want to re-look up the numbers- maybe as many or more than soldiers killed, and not only by US soldiers by any means.The traumatization of these women affects many generations to come.

Thank you so much for your so encouraging words to me. Before I received your response, I'was looking at quotes by Jimmy Carter and was not disappointed. How about this one: “We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.” ― Jimmy Carter