Thanks for everything you just wrote Dave. You said a lot of interesting things...especially about not believing the spirit dies when the body does.

Many who have had a major trauma know all about out-of-body experiences, near death experiences, and a lot of other "psychic-type" experiences, know in no uncertain terms that although the spirit certainly "lives" in the body and animates it, it doesn't live "because" of the body ... I think a lot of you soldiers, young and old, know exactly waht I'm talking about through direct experience?

The fear and horror of what these men must have felt in the face of their deaths, I feel sure, gave way, when needed, to an amazing spirit/spiritual release. I'm not talking endorphins... I'm talking spirit. Yah can't kill energy, which is what spirit is in my opinion, ...Thats my story and I'm stickin' to it!

Now, some of you folks may be thinking I'm really crazy hey? Ah well ... I love yer "energy" anywise