@ 2 Its OUR CALL ADULTS , @ 3 Loretta Swit, Actorvist/Author

Generation Columbine. Born during the first few years of the 21st century, our youngest Americans, from high schoolers on down, have never known a world without school shootings. The 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., took place before virtually all of them were born. These students have grown up in Columbine’s shadow, with locker searches, locked schoolhouse doors, bulletproof backpacks and active shooter drills. Just as their grandparents feared polio and their parents feared nuclear war, these young people arrive at school each morning fearing death by high-powered rifle. This generation has attended class through more than 200 school shootings since Columbine, which have effectively altered their sense of safety — psychologists would call the collective dread of rampages a “threat to your assumptive world.” USA TODAY

Award-winning actress and activist, Loretta Swit, who recently received the BETTY WHITE Award from Actors & Others for Animals, choose that opportunity to announce the upcoming publication of “SWITHEART: The Watercolour Artistry & Animal  Activism of Loretta Swit” by/with Mies Hora (Ultimate Symbol), in conjunction with the 45th anniversary year of M.A.S.H., and the role that brought her international acclaim as Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan. 'SwitHeart' chronicles the artwork of TV Icon Loretta Swit, a true champion of the animal kingdom. Watercolorist, award-winning animal activist and actress, Ms. Swit is renowned for her starring role on TV's most honored series, M*A*S*H, for which she won two EMMY's and worldwide acclaim.  SwitHeart includes 65 full-color paintings and drawings.  Proceeds from the book will be donated to charities and programs that are as dedicated, as Ms. Swit and the SwitHeart Animal Alliance are to ending animal suffering and cruelty.