Ted had a long session at the V. A. dental clinic yesterday.
Usually you don't see many of the wounded there but I had
an experience in the waiting room that brought the horror
close to me.

I take a book because the wait is long. A woman came in
with a cane and taking tiny, shuffling steps. She had
obviously sustained a serious brain injury. She was given
a form to fill out. She looked at it a long time and then
approached me and said, "I can't read anymore." " Will you
read it to me." Of course I did and she was able to mark
the yes and no questions with an X.

Just one ruined life among so many devastated by war. Will
the world ever wake up and put an end to the senseless
slaughter? I think not. Long after I am gone people will
still be trying to impose their belief systems on others.
It makes me sad.