The walking wounded who attended are not actual soldiers or fighters of a typical civil war.  But all of those who assembled and joined the ranks, had either been drafted or enlisted in the fight against the misuse of child abuse laws, a phenomenon which maims, devastates and destroys families. 

          Many battles of love, patience, and courage were told by individuals who stood at the front lines of endured injustice, namely false allegations of abuse.  Can it be true, in America, in these free United States, that such senseless crimes against the innocent are being waged? 

          A hometown firefighter-hero disgraced and nearly destroyed by envious false accusers?  A father's long time family court battle to see his kids finally won, only to lose his sons again to bad faith, convenient filing of false claims?  Daughters lost within the traumatic spider web of confusion and tampered memories, due to insidious, flawed, destructive therapies.  Their father, innocent by facts and evidence but accused, emotionally violated and dangling on the cliffs of hopelessness and despair, all for nothing? 

          A family, United State's citizens, compelled to flee their country, simply because nobody listened, acknowledged, or accepted that a child simply, unfortunately, suffered from a bone disease?  Essentially, innocents imprisoned either emotionally or behind bars at the whims of false accusers and those who so incompetently or willingly aid and abet? 

          Yes, sadly it is all true. 

          Yet even though these patriots get caught up in hostile, atomic bomb-like battles where everything dear and meaningful seems to be blown away by relentless winds, they do not surrender.  The casualties, the senseless losses accumulate.  But from some unknown origin deep within the hearts and strong-willed spirits of these crusaders for family and justice; they find the strength to fight on.  Like other wars, other soldiers, they battle it out, not only merely to survive, but for their children, future generations and, boldly, for their country. 

          It is a fierce, vital fight for the preservation of family and civil rights.  Effective strategies and new lines of defense are always welcomed.  Let's hope that Emerson, in his wisdom, was right.  "FALSEHOOD, IT CANNOT WORK, FOR IT IS NOT!"