I am so proud and amazed. I could never have done what you did, but I am so grateful to people like you and like your cousin, who do, because you were doing it for people like me--standing between us and those who hate us.

I think of the Rangers protecting the Shire, of Gondor's soldiers trying to hold back the Dark, and I realize that for all our dreams of a peaceful world (and I had them, very much as most of my generation did, forty years ago) it's clear that there are those, whether Orcs or Terrorists, who don't care a fig for the rights of the innocent. We *need* people like you, who are willing to help hold back the Dark.

And you did, for as long as you could.

((((((((((((((hugs tightly))))))))))))))))))