<sigh>  It would indeed be nice, TigerEye, if everyone who read what should have amounted to an uplifting and enlightening story would accept it as such and reacted in kind.  But it's just not to be, at least in my soon-to-be-ended lifetime.

I think I'll watch a YouTube of clip of the last 10 minutes of Kubrick's "Paths of Glory" to rejuvenate my optimism for the human race.