Reply #33: I'm sorry to be so strident. But you have to remember or to imagine

[EFerrari]

what it was like for that generation to see its leaders cut down, one after the other. That is what little countries like Guatemala or El Salvador go through, never something we'd imagine for ourselves. And yet, it happened here.

I can't think of another generation that went through that except maybe in the Civil War.

Even apart from the profound loss, it had a chilling effect on people who might have stepped forward as leaders.

I hope we never go through something like that again.