we shall remember them

[Terry Bassett]

On Saturday 19 October 2002 07:13, Keith Antoine wrote:
> As of midnight tonight Australia is in a state of mourning for 24 hrs, for
> its dead and injured in Bali. 
<snip>
> Now after 44 years it seems that it has once again found us.
Hello Keith,
	Even before the Bali explosion.  I had to face up to these world events that 
are so much larger than self.  My nephew runs a Patriot missile battery, 
currently at an undisclosed location, (he emailed that it is very warm and 
sandy, though).  My son will enter the military soon and God knows what he 
will face.  God alone knows what is coming.
	Gather close to your family and know that we consider you and yours as 
family.
	We have many in this country that have resisted (as is their perfect right) 
the president's call to war; but we seem to be reaching a concensus about 
what has to be done.  Al Qeada days are numbered. Sadly religious zealots 
have caused hell to be loosed upon the innocent.
	When I was young I was wrapped up in a thing we called the Cold War, having 
dealt with that, I had hoped that the world would find peace.  With the fall 
of the USSR, the long simmering radical moslem preaching has had an 
astonishing effect on our world.  I fear now that the world will never 
achieve true peace.
	The future is not what it used to be.

God Bless you and Austrailia

Terry Bassett