Like everyone here I am praying wordlessly (what words could possibly be enough?) for everyone involved. I think it behooves us to remember that the last time we saw a US government building blown up, everyone assumed it was an Arab terrorist and instead it turned out to be Timothy McVeigh, as American as he could be, but filled with hate. We don't know that the perpetrators are foreign. We may find ourselves at war not with Afghanistan, not with the Taliban, but with some compound(s) in Montana or Idaho. It is terrible indeed to think of people celebrating this awful series of events--but that doesn't mean we know, yet, who is behind this.

I have a 22-year-old son, and I wonder if we will live to see another draft, another generation of boys being sent off to be killed. May God have mercy on us all.