Rick and Micki came for breakfast this morning and then got an early start back. It let us have a quiet day to recover from the excitement of yesterday. After taking 
Plato for a walk, I had some leftover chili for lunch and then took a long nap this afternoon.
This article is a different take on the acceptance speech by Robert Muller for the World Citizenship Award. I get the feeling Charlie Daniels isn't going to win that anytime soon.
This evening there was a candlelight vigil to protest the war in Iraq. The last time we attended a candlelight vigil was after Sept 11. At that vigil, candles that had the name of someone who died in the two towers were passed out. We brought those candles and used them for peace. I don't know if the people who they represented would have approved or not, but certainly those who are trying to start this war feel justified in invoking it in the name of those who died.
The vigil was well attended. I don't have any experience estimating numbers, but I would guess a couple thousand people. I arrived with my two boys, we lit our candles, and people began to sing Give Peace a Chance. My younger boy asked why people were singing and I explained that we didn't want our country to go to war. "What's 'war'?" he asked. I replied that war was when one country attacked another to make that country do what the other wanted and that even now our country had planes and tanks ready to start dropping bombs on another country that would kill a lot of people. "Well, that's stupid!" he said. I said that we all thought so too.