Reply #102: Yes indeed American have lost heir collective minds in ASTOUNDING

[bush_is_wacko]

NUMBERS. I think 911 made that possible and if you read or remember some of the stories about how Americans were suffering from all sorts of mental maladies and heading off to their local family physicians for medication to stop the pain you can get a pretty good idea of why they don't want to wake up.

I am one of those Americans that had previously lived and triumphed over incredible emotional pain and suffering. Over a eight year period of time 3 family members died of AIDS, both sets of grandparents died of heart disease, stroke, and broken hearts, a childhood friend of my brothers died in a horrific and widely publicized construction accident, my father had a heart attack and triple bypass surgery, my brother was diagnosed with type one diabetes, my cousin who's mother died of AIDS had to have a sixth open heart surgery to replace a defective valve she was born with, my mother became gravely ill (I'm sure over stress, she is better now, but still sick), my father in law died of lung cancer, and 4 family members underwent treatment for what we were told was terminal cancer. (They are all alive and well today thanks to family support and modern medicine.)

I have seen the effects of great turmoil and real tragedy on people. Tragedy can become one mans triumphant return to a life worth living or it can bring people so far down to their knees they are unable to see any hope in the foreseeable future. 911 did that to people. We are fighting mass depression, mass awakening, and mass confusion, from the effects of tragedy.

I don't know how to begin to help people heal from that tragedy, but I know there is hope on the other side of tragedy. I've been there.