I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation' so I was about 13 or 14.

So when I was 13 I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work sunshine exercise soap plenty of fresh air and a happy contented spirit.

For any of us in this room today let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in our grandmothers lived in where career choices for women were so limited.

My mother lived in Holland and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.

During the Cold War we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

As to war I am and always was a great enemy at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.

If anything we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

We used to wonder where war lived what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can only as one who has seen its brutality its futility its stupidity.