[wlyon]

This is probably not the place for this since it doesn't involve lugers or holsters or guns of any kind. Instead it is about the people in my small Montana hometown. My wife has been in kidney failure for several years and has been on the National kidney list for two years. In May she went on dialysis. The local paper did an article about her. From this a local total stranger volunteered a kidney. The operation is Nov.27 in Seattle. The town (1200 people) has totally overwhelmed us with support. There is a "bandana bonanza," ,selling purple bandanas for Mary. Everywhere I go people are wearing them. Tonight our local live theater put on a benefit play. Our church has been highly involved. On Nov 18 there will be a town blessing for Mary. It is not the monetary portion that's important it's the love and caring we are the recepients of. It seems that the news these days is filled with bad things. They need to print more of the good things like my wife and I are experiencing. Believe me it is eye opening and very humbling. It makes an old cynical man like me think and even shed a tear or two. There is still a lot of good in this old country. Bill