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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.

Nice words.

My kids are at school. I guess this is a learning curve for me too, learning what to be "to be afraid of, and of what not to fear"

I also did something a little constructive with my fear. I signed up with Civil Affairs Service Corps of Homeland Secuirty this morning. http://www.usndfscom.com

I hate being afraid. So I'm doing something about it. That is one of the characteristics our culture was based on.

Thanks again for your thought provoking response to me.