Rustic Rebel, this is a good place to have posted that. Thank you, very much! My sisters had just heard about the rice thing and their church group was planning to do so.

TIA, thanks for the link. Don Firth, thanks for your comment.

OG - cite your claims, esp. the ones which are supposedly direct.

Also, the American Revolution did not bring peace, no war has ever brought peace. It was the beginning of "official" government conflicts, unrest and further wars throughout our country from then on. There has also been such throughout the world because of the worn-out patriarchal, Picean age beliefs in wiedling the bigger club instead of using more civilised means of getting to know one's supposed enemies and learning to get along in a more humane way.

kat