Again - thank you all.......if any good comes out of this kind of crap, I feel like a changed person.....not sure what I can actually DO but have been told there is a war protest gathering coming up shortly, in MA I believe I was told. I'll be there. My daughter was organizing everyone (she is her mother's child after all!!) for a gathering this week -- she says she is DETERMINED never to let too much distance grow between her and people she loves .... so I guess that is positive too.

This is such a great forum -- I needed to talk and say what I was feeling-- to receive such support, some from people I know well, and some from people I don't know at all, is so special........