[Calpernia]

They aren't in public school :) Catholic School.

I am just remembering those Al Qaeda tapes. And feeling jumpy.

[Aggie Mama]

Me as well. I think I'll go with my gut on this. We'll see how I am in the morning.

[yellowroses]

I'd prayerfully consider all options, and proceed as inspired. Prayers for all. God bless America and our troops.

[Unknowing]

What if everyone kept their kids home from school?

It has been said that one should act only on that maxim which one should also will to be a universal maxim. You know.

So, should it be a universal maxim that we on the Home Front ought to suspend activities in which we may be vulnerable?

I am proud to participate in the risks necessary for our nation to reject threats of evil. But I also experience fear which I myself cannot estimate or mitigate. And I have missed days at school since 9/11. But I think that we live under a threat of large-scale and merciless attacks.

So, I think that maybe sending "our" children to school while under these threats is a way to preserve and cultivate our culture, our Western heritage of civilization. And to teach Valor, a virtue which Socrates said boils down to knowing of what to be afraid, and of what not to fear.

May your children be protected, Calpernia. Pax Vobiscum.