As an old clarinetist/saxophonist that really should find the time to pull out the reeds again, the closing line in CBS Sunday Morning story on a symphony orchestra in Iraq, attributed to one of its members, really grabbed me...

"Music is everything that war is not.

So true.

(Come to think of it, the closest I ever came to military service was a stint in the ROTC band, taken on to avoid the last year (1969) of required phys ed on the banks of the old Raritan.)