Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.

Issues can only be resolved if each person accepts accountability in the problem.

There's "good" in all things. You just have to find it.

It's not the fact that some people disagree with the protests. That is as much a right as the protests themselves. It is the hateful, profane, condescending way some have expressed their discontent that baffles me. How do you criticize actions you've deemed disrespectful and divisive and an affront to civilized behavior with rhetoric to the same end? That's like the devil judging the Grim Reaper for harvesting souls.

In the midst of combat, we learned a great deal about mankind and its many different races, creeds and beliefs.

Long ago, before I met her, she twisted her blond hair into dreadlocks and, pretty as she is, the locks add an allure she wouldn't otherwise have.