I remember the first time I found Alamo-Girl's thread ... I was humbled and informed ... then humbled again ... then informed some more ... back and forth all over the place!
Welcome, Newcomers!!!
I'm hearing we are tired of this war already ... the constant be on alert and the anthrax is simply exhausting, it is.
Listen to this from Edward R. Murrow in London during the Blitz:
"Today I walked down a long street. The gutters were full of glass; the big red buses couldn't pull into the curb. There was the harsh, grating sound of glass being shoveled into trucks.
In one window --- or what used to be a window --- was a sign. It read:
SHATTERED --- BUT NOT SHUTTERED
Halfway down the block there was a desk on the sidewalk; a man sat behind it with a pile of notes at his elbow. He was paying off the staff of the store --- the store that stood there yesterday."
It's our time to earn our stripes ... Citizen Soldiers ... each and every one of us.