[cyberia]

Nick, your a good friend and I agree with all you say above, with the exception that doom looms. Every generation faces its own challenges. However somehow, someway, people survive, families are raised and life goes on.

I was raised in the 60s. AKA "The Eve of Destruction". I went to grade school and practiced "duck and cover" drills. I remember when at least once a week a young man in a crisp uniform would stroll our Brooklyn streets with a sad rhythmic tap, stopping at an address to hand the deliver to some family the worse of news. I remember watching on TV as a young girl needed to be escorted by armed National Guardsmen, just so she could attend school.

Some things have changed. Some have not. But, here we are.

Sure, we may be in for some rough times, again. But that's life and option B is no option at all.