Personally

I know that I should not say anything personal on the Internet, but in case someone wanted to know, it is no secret that my Dad's Aunt Judy was a batty old witch in a manner of speaking. Her divorce and second marriage to the colonel really confuses the picture. We were not military people (the Butterfields being an exception to the rule, not that there was ever a rule about that) in China. This is not said to criticize the military, or to make any pretense of ever having declared ourselves to be pacifist non-combatants (not to be confused with the Hammonds or some other colleagues of my great-grandparents who were conscientious objectors), but because it just doesn't have very much to do with who I am. Most of us had come out of from among the dead mainliners in response to the true Gospel of Jesus Christ, the invisible church of the saints redeemed by the blood the lamb which is not necessarily defined by the four walls of institutional religiosity, and yet Judy's offspring somehow got confused and went backwards. It is unfortunate, then, that Judy's mainlining offspring, the Hunts and the Hiatts, have way more money and influence than their insignificant opinions deserve, at least in our opinion, in a manner of speaking, sort of, if you know what I mean.