I agree it is "not the kind of subject matter that is suppose to come through rootsweb mailing lists", but it came at a very good time for me, and I forwarded it to my family and friends, along with one I also just received this week, from a member of Wedgewood Baptist Church, citing how the incident is being used for God's Glory. If anyone else is interested, I would be happy to forward it to them privately, in respect to your, and the original intent of the list's, request. I do not mean for this to get into any kind of "flame", and I will not respond to any other "reply"s on the list, and I hope nobody else does either. If you haven't, please don't. But let me just add finally, if you have seen this week's news of the shoot out in Pleasanton, TX, the DPS officer killed was my niece's husband. We lost my brother-in-law "in-the-line of duty" 20 years ago, and both my brother, another brother-in-law, and another cousin, are also in law inforcement, not *drafted*, but what they wanted to do. This is printed on the flyleaf of our published family history, as well as taken from our Ultimate family history(no *commercial* plug) "For this cause I bow my knee unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named". -Ephesians 3:14, 15 Nancy Bray Cooper Corpus Christi, TX [email protected] wrote: > > This is not the kind of subject matter that is suppose to come through > rootsweb mailing lists. And I don't appreciate it. Stick to genealogy, > please!!! > Annie Bray Birks