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  Beyond the Yellow Ribbon

  Shannon,
  
  A great article---a well written portrayal of an often brushed-under-the-carpet issue that affects all of us in many ways every day.
  
  Pat,
  
  Please...I beg you, please return from the hippy wonderland rock you were under when you wrote this post.  Don't get me wrong; as a fellow pacifist and government skeptic, I agree with your quest for genuine peace. But realize Pat, that there are things in this world, such as War, that are not so simple as speaking and willing and hoping them in to existance.  We live in a world that has as many opinions as there are people.  From certain opinions, of certain more distinguished and influential people, agenda and ultimately action is produced.  Oftentimes these agenda are self- serving and, in this case, it is sad for the vast and mushroomed effects that occur herein.  Though, I think, most of the time, agenda, in regard to any given political, economic, or even religious issue, are the resultant decision of these certain few "influential" people whom do make a genuine attempt to promote an eventual PEACE and prevent a singular hungry, cold, and lonely night.  My point, Pat, is that it is the duty of each of to simply, yet deliberately, promote the ideas (or opinions) with which we genuinly agree and challenge the ideas (or policy) with we either do not understand or do not concur.  Do not merely cry your generally concieved utopian dreams.  Consider all sides of the decisions of our leaders.  Promote the "How" and the "Why" along with the "What."  Within each citizen is a voice that can expand into a movement that will touch OUR world.  Use your voice wisely and as a megaphone for positive change.