The following inspirational message is the text of a speech given by U. S. Representative Dennis Kucinich on June 9, 2002, at the Praxis Peace Institute Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia. It gives some of his vision of how the Department of Peace, which he has proposed as a Cabinet level department within our federal government, might help bring peace in our world, instead of war and misery. It was reprinted by Patricia Diane Cota-Robles in her ezine article entitled A Critical Time for the USA and Mother Earth, sent out on March 18, 2008. It also shows how important our...