The past few days

[macloudt at yahoo.co.uk]

 Create scholarships, one each named
> after the victims of Tuesday, to provide poor children all over 
those
> parts of the world most in need with high school education followed 
by
> training in medicine, civil engineering and maybe a few other 
things. An
> Operation Headstart for the Third World would actually help reduce 
poverty
> and remove that foreignness and alienness which is one of the 
reasons for
> hatred

Peg, what a brilliant idea.  I agree, what a wonderful way to have 
something positive come out of this tragedy.

And yes, despite our initial outpouring of grief, we must also try to 
stand back and look at WHY this happened.  Though there is of course 
no excuse *whatsoever* for this dispicable act, there must be reasons 
behind it.  I have 3 very young kids, and all I can do is hope that 
by the time they grow up some of these conflicts will be been 
resolved.

Peace to you all

Mary Ann