Children. Silent victims for maybe even decades.

They didn't know it though.  They were never told.  They certainly didn't know to tell anyone.  They didn't have to like it, were embarrassed by it but still, never said a word.  A crime?  Never entered their little minds.  If time doesn't heal it then time may blunt the child's memory, or so it would seem.  And that's the magic word, 'seem'.  I can't answer that.  Just love them and especially talk to them, for their and your sakes.......................marge

I would feel so proud

I watch and listen to the parades of our and our allies soldiers and law enforcement people and how they salute with great pride.  I've always wanted to 'salute'.  I haven't earned the right and that saddens me.  I feel their pride  but I miss the privilege of saluting..............marge

One person. So many dead

How do we and can we, stop this crazed madness?  Mentally deranged, ill, 'mad' sick men and any other 'name' one can think of for these killers.  And yes.  They seem to be men or (boys) if you will.
The whole world is one big bloodbath and now, here in the United States also.  Did not Sandy Hook give us a clue?  When will  the NRA and many many others comprehend that the Second Amendment to the Constitution did NOT mean for people like this latest killer to have and use these weapons at will or even be able to get them without a problem?  They got them from someone or some group.  It shouldn't be too hard to figure out who these 'groups' are should it?  And why can't we go after them and stop them.  Let's do something, anything.  Do these providers feel no guilt, shame?  That in itself shocks me.  We must decide and now.  No more massacres in the name of all that's Holy.  Please.................marge

Murdered child yet again in Michigan

I just got up.  I've seen no TV or listened to the radio.  I did receive a call telling me that the body of the kidnapped child may have been found.  Children are murdered in their homes, their front yards and taken from  in front of their local corner stores and murdered.  There are no more safe havens here.  None.  No safe place to raise our children.  This we thought, was a nice and yes safe midwestern state called Michigan.  A good place to be and raise a family.  Not anymore.  We will go down in the history of Michigan as the  'No safe child State'.  We all are becoming paranoid about young people and babies safety and justly so.  And the worst?  We don't even know what to do, or how to do it.  Sad and frustrating beyond belief.......................................marge