"There's a saying: 'Anything that does not kill me makes me stronger.'
I don't believe that saying. No one is better off for
having been raped. No one is better off for
having been called names because of their color. Nobody is better off for
having been beaten as a child.
"I think incidents like these in any normal person will leave permanent scars that don't necessarily damage forever, but are always there in the back of the mind."
-- Joseph L. Mancusi, a psychologist quoted by ABC News,
on the survivors of the attack on the USS Cole