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McCann, Chuck
Saturday, 25 October 2008 23:26
In a few words or many words we look at life. It’s sudden unpredictable ending or the gradual step by inexorable step to a climax we never imagined. There is humor in life. The planning we do, which the Fates alter even as we carry these plans to their conclusion, must be laughed at. Here is a book full of daily incidents o show how man has yet to learn from past mistakes, but he tries. Or does he?

Whether the criminal mind blunders into mistakes or the calculating mind can’t see beyond its present actions, mistakes happen. The well planned crime has its pitfalls. The crime of the moment is an opportunity. What makes them fail? collection of these failures, each one hopefully revealing something you had not would ensnare the culprit.
    
War is horrible, because more often than not the unexpected occurs. Yet war is exactly that, an unexpected encounter pitting one against another. Soldiers accept their duties to eliminate the enemy as their job. Remember, both sides expect to win, because each side believes it is right. Also remember, both sides cannot win. Someone loses. Do we see a lost skirmish as chance or predestined or the sacrifice to maintain our way of life?
    
Every one of us champions a cause, a team or a way of life. Some of us stand up and holler, fight for our beliefs. Others stand behind the radical, supporting them with funds or just our presence. Vocal or not we have opinions. At times, we discuss something among our family or among friends. These moments will provide an opportunity to agree or disagree with a point of view. However, there is no neutrality here.
    
And which of us has not pondered the possible change if we had done something differently? Change that and change our lives. It’s called hindsight. Dreamers that we are, we seek salvation in these daydreams. Why can’t we? How could we? We live in a real world of desire, need, and success. But we’re not satisfied. Perhaps, in these stories, we can see ourselves in someone else’s dream world, maybe even wanting to change this reality, too.