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To: Dale Baker who wrote (113241)	6/13/2009 2:19:35 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 542201

I was going to give the holocaust museum a miss. I've been to the concentration camps in Germany (and I've been to the memorial at Nagasaki) and I'm burned out on the horror men can inflict on each other- but I may have to go to the museum just to join in the peaceful demonstration that we can choose to refuse to let terrorists change our way of life. They do not "change everything" unless we allow them to. And we should not allow them to. Although come to think of it I'm changing my plans in order to go to the museum because of this event...so maybe I should just do what I was going to do... Sigh so confused I did get my group in for a Kennedy Center tour and a free show. Bless my congresscritter. They worked hard to get us something at the last minute.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (113241)	6/13/2009 11:44:30 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542201

INteresting about the shooter's visit earlier to the Naval Academy, expressing views so extreme that it prompted a call "to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service." That plus the paranoid accusation about his SS were all warning signs. The man was 88. I recently read an article about the increasing percentage of Alzheimers and mental disorders in over 70s (14%). It was much higher than I would have guessed, and is growing as we live longer and the numbers of seniors grows. By age 90, the number affected was 1 in 3. The more education one had, the lower the incidence. (Am immediately enrolling for another degree!) THis had been a volatile, angry individual for many years. It makes sense to me that at 88, he was less rational, less able to control himself. It's too bad no one picked up on the signs that he was decompensating.