this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters
cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.
image and poem below the fold
A family buries a relative who was killed by a suicide bomber in a mosque in the northeast Iraqi town of Khanaqin November 18, 2005. Two suicide bombers strapped with explosives killed at least 77 people on Friday and reduced two crowded Shi’ite mosques to rubble which were packed with men during prayers.
REUTERS/Helmiy Al-Azawi
The Teasers
by William Empson
Not but they die, the teasers and the dreams,
Not but they die,
and tell the careful flood
To give them what they clamour for and why.
You could not fancy where they rip to blood
You could not fancy
nor that mud
I have heard speak that will not cake or dry.
Our claims to act appear so small to these
Our claims to act
colder lunacies
That cheat the love, the moment, the small fact.
Make no escape because they flash and die,
Make no escape
build up your love,
Leave what you die for and be safe to die.
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read Ilona’s important diary at MLW – Returning Vet PTSD – One Soldier’s Story
view the pbs newshour silent honor roll (with thanks to jimstaro at booman.)
take a private moment to light one candle among many (with thanks to TXSharon)
support Veterans for Peace
support the Iraqi people
support the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC)
support CARE
support the victims of torture
remember the fallen
support Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors – TAPS
support Gold Star Families for Peace
support the fallen
support the troops
support Iraq Veterans Against the War
support Military families Speak Out
support the troops and the Iraqi people
read This is what John Kerry did today, the diary by lawnorder that prompted this series
read Riverbend’s Bagdhad Burning
read Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches
read Today in Iraq
witness every day
Click on the candle to copy the image into your own comment (you can leave it on my server), and/or rate this one – not for mojo, but to leave a small mark after taking this moment.
” I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”
from Dirge Without Music
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The complete poem is included here.
Peace
The bustle in a house
by Emily Dickinson
The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth,–
The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.
Light A Candle For
Peace, Tolerance, Understanding
and For Innocence Lost!
Surprise Offensive for Peace
“Small Victories open Dialog and Thinking which in turn Lead to Major Changes”
IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE RESISTANCE
END THE OCCUPATION
“If they question why we died,
Tell them because our fathers lied.”
– Rudyard Kipling
A Note: I sent a Fax to my Representative, Robin Hayes, requesting he either put forth A Call For Censure of Ms Schmidt for her Disgraceful Charges and Words on the Floor of The Peoples House, or he Sign On to Anothers Call and Publicly Rebuke Her! I doubt if he will, even being a Vietnam Vet, so If You Please Contact Your Reps and Request Same!!
Thank You
James Starowicz
USN ’67-’71 GMG3 Vietnam In-Country ’70-’71 COMNAVFORV
…more strongly than innocent blood shed for a lie.
(yes, that is the actual headline)
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Posted earlier in diary by night owl —
Woodward & Miller Team Up to Write Tell-All Book
VP Cheney’s Heaven ::
Corporations supplying the mercenaries and war costs funded by shills, contracted to reap all benefits of conquest.
Simply, we’ll call the soldier El Conquistadore.
Inspired by source: A License To Shill.
For their combined autobiography, may I suggest as title: “Treason”.
LEAVE … Iraq to the Iraqis
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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PEACE
Peace