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Be Not Afraid Introductionourselves with guns and locked doors. Fearing peoplewho don’t look like us or earn as much, we move intosegregated or “gated” neighborhoods. Fearing othernations, we impose sanctions and drop bombs. We areeven afraid of our own offspring, turning our schoolsinto virtual prisons, and our prisons into holding pensand morgues. Add to all these anxieties several morethat are driving millions to distraction, at least at thetime of this writing: terrorism, bio-warfare, and planesfalling out of the sky.With eight children, and some two dozengrandchildren, I know what it is like to ponder thefuture and be scared. Having stood at the bedsideof dying friends and relatives – and having foughtalongside them – I also have an inkling of what itmeans to face death. More important, I have seenthe peace that radiates from those who have not onlybattled their fears but found strength to overcomethem. That peace gives me courage and hope, and intelling you their stories, I hope it will do the same foryou.Ordinary men and women, the people in this bookhad their share of bad days, struggles, obstacles, andlow moments. They cried; they were scared; theyneeded reassurance. Most would have gone underwithout support. But to me their significance lies notso much in the way they died, but in the way theyxi