Well, I taught it when I was teaching I was at Letterman at USF so I worked with Army nurses and I worked with veterans which was interesting. One of the things I really observed when I was there was that many of the men that came out of the military, a lot of them had heart disease and a lot of them couldn’t accept being not in the military.

That their image of themselves. That’s it, and they made the students call them Captain, you know, which I thought was – they were only students it didn’t matter. If they would have said Mister. I mean, one of them said, “Don’t call me Mister!”

That was their identity and they couldn’t accept returning to civilian life.

I really feel the impact of what’s going on with the Iraqi soldiers and the Marines who have brain injuries. I took a quarter of neural physiology so I know a lot about the brain and these people – there were 8,000 military walking around with brain damage. I watched a program and I read that whole article in Mercury so Jim and I – I said, “I want to donate money to the families because they are having a terrible time.”

My brother was a corpsman in the Marines. I was very upset when he went because I didn’t want to lose him.

I didn’t demonstrate against the war. My brother wouldn’t wear his uniform in Boston. He would have things thrown at him.

I would say that my first thought was that those people were suffering during the war. But now I don’t agree with everything. We are in such a Catch – 22.

I know about the impact of war and families. The average public doesn’t know. I would love to volunteer and go up and talk to those people, but it is a long trip for me now. I pray for them when I do in adoration. I pray for Bush. And I pray for Rumsfeld to go. I just think that something needs to be different.