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
Amal Amer the sister of two slain brothers Hamid and Walid Amer who were shot dead in their store in Buhriz market south of Baqouba, Iraq, by unidentified gunmen Friday, Dec. 9, 2005, according to police, grieves outside the hospital where her brothers bodies were taken.
(AP Photo/Mohammed Adnan)
A noiseless patient spider
by Walt Whitman
A noiseless patient spider,
I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
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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
PEACE….NOW!
Light A Candle For
Peace, Tolerance, Understanding
and For Innocence Lost!
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BOHICA’s [Diary]; Member of Veterans For Peace Chapter 72
Put Together The Following Music Flash Video To Fogarty’s Deja Vu (All Over Again) With Photo’s Past/Present
As BOHICA States: “”Iraq is not like Viet Nam.” You’ve all heard this by the apologists for the war.”
This was the Reason to put this together, couldn’t get Fogarty’s Song out of Mind!!!
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Peace Takes Courage
NOVEMBER IN IRAQ
Flash Video
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PEACE TAKES COURAGE
Music Video:
It’s HARD
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A song by Billy Bragg-
Click Link To Listen & Read The Lyrics
The Price Of Oil
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A Music Video – ‘Real Patriots’ Taking ACTION
Peace Takes Courage:
The Video: HOLD ON
US investigates Iraq gunfire film
Some might say it is reckless to make oneself disappearable.
I say fuck the renderers. There is no choice available to us.
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Pentagon lawyers are examining the release of photographs of the coffins of dead American soldiers repatriated from Iraq. April 2004From Nanjing 1937 to Fallujah 2004
By Herbert P. Bix
Sir Winstin Churchill on Bush
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IT’S TIME TO CLEAN-UP CONGRESS IN 2006!
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