We give people a safe place to grieve.

If someone feels they need to come back for a second session, we can have them do that. If there are other problems, such as not sleeping or not eating, we can refer them for mental health treatment in the community.

The holidays evoke strong emotions, and . . . it's all about the senses. You touch gift wrap, smell the candles and cookies, hear the sounds of bells.

People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.

Most people that I have met who've been in this situation, almost all of them have told me, after they've gotten through the hard part, this is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Seventeen-thousand people and they?re going 2-14, and then they bring the idiot in from Tampa, and he?s taken it from 17 to 10.