Nicely written, but, as to the fatalism...I am elder;y, getting to the point where each month or year is a bonus - yet, I still make plans for fighting back, in the hope of saving a few children, so that there is a future.

Giving up is never pardonable. I prefer to get angry and rant and rave, as long as it leads to my refusing to go into the night.... - and maybe doing some good.