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A little over a week ago in my neck of the woods, two young teens riding public transit known as the MAX were subjected to vitriolic and loud hate speech by a man. Three other men attempted to deescalate the situation, but the hate monger pulled out a knife and slashed the throats of all three men, two of whom died. The lone survivor is a friend of my granddaughter. The last words of recent college graduate, 23-year-old Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, before he passed away was "Tell everyone on this train I love them." In visiting this spontaneous memorial, I was overcome with emotion, just as I was when visiting the Holocaust Deportation Memorial in Paris. I was also in France last summer when the Nice terrorist attack occurred. There are just too many of these happening in our era. But confess that if I was on MAX at the time of the incident, I, too, would have attempted to intervene. Hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed; this is the eternal law. Portland, Oregon, USA.