Querido y Estimado Efren,
It's been many years since i briefly lived in Madrid across the street from
Estacion Atocha, taking my chocolate con churros every morning at the
station front.  I want to send my love to you and all your countrymen, and also
say how proud I was to see everyone take to the streets in support. 
The same day, by coincidence, I passed by NY Ground Zero, 2 years and 6 months
since the WTC attack, and was amazed how sterile what is now a construction lot
seems now,  although many tourists were still looking for the twisted metal.
That same night I attended a conference about Christians who saved Jews and
others during WWII and the main thing we took away was that it was perfectly
average, sometimes even otherwise criminal, people who would never think of
themselves as heroic who risk their lives for others.
I'm thinking of you in Barcelona, and any other Spaniards on the list, and
sending love and solidarity- it is the common people- like us on the list-
who do little deeds to make the world a little better every day.  I am
glad to be with everyone here.
Love,
Steve Koenig