Roger

Congrats on the book and I hope you have a great trip home!

Catherine

I see you got your answer. The font doesn’t get smaller in my browser, the lines just get closer together. (I use IE on a PC.)

All

I was up all night (usual for me) and caught the live video and reporting during the shootout starting about 5am my time. It was terribly confusing and frightening and as far as we know we still don’t have all the facts/figures straight. The Russians aren’t terribly concerned about giving out information, and when they do you can’t depend on it being accurate. (The concept is still too new for them, we’ll just have to give them time to adjust to their new world).

My basic understanding is that the soldiers did not initiate whatever happened but tried to take advantage of a situation that had begun to deteriorate badly. It’s too tragic to even put into words.

We love life and even more than life we love our children. The Islamist terrorists care for neither.