'Peace' is not what Matt described there. Peace is people loving, having children, nurturing families, singing and making music. Peace is people free to travel, free to learn, free to teach, growing things, helping others, electing representatives to stand for us in the world. Peace is the freedom in which to live and grow and learn.

What Matt described is the cancers that are to be combatted or neutralized in peace time. I would hate to think that they are our defining elements.

War is the temporary failure of peace. In my mind, the people who paid the ultimate price for that failure are to be honored and remembered- but the whole thrust of civilization must be in the direction of making wars not only unnecessary but archaic.

I dream of a day when wars are but dimly remembered artifacts of a distant past.

Ebbie

Ebbie