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As we enter the season of Lent, we begin to ask ourselves how to observe a Holy Lent. Does it mean giving up something or someone? Deprivation? Fasting? The old words are "What are you giving up for Lent?"

The United Nations was created in the hope that humanity could not only end wars, it could eventually make them unnecessary. The founders hoped that our Organization could help stop violence by spreading a culture of peace, promoting tolerance and advancing human dignity.

I met a man today who fought with the Americans in Italy in WW2. He'd traveled with his dad to Europe several years before the war. When in Germany, he'd asked his dad, "Why are there so many soldiers? Why are there so many airplanes? What's happening here?" His dad told him that there would soon be a terrible war. He had enlisted and decided to kill as many Germans as he could. He said when he caught his first German POW, they both cried. Now, when his grandkids ask him how many Germans he killed in the war, he says, "None, I hope." When I hear the Kagans and other big talking neocons talk big talk about torture and nuking the Arabs I think, "Sissies, if they had to meet someone face to face, they'd piss themselves." They don't know what they're talking about. They don't understand what it is to be a human being. We're being "led" by people who are pre-human. Not yet human beings. Little men start wars. Big men finish them. Really big human beings help people heal from war.