“I don’t walk about belief – whether or not we should have started this war. Rather, I walk because we shouldn’t live our lives as if all is normal. People are suffering every moment because of this war – U.S. Soldiers and their families, Iraqi soldiers and civilians and their families – and this question of what we can do to end this suffering should be with us every day.”
a Concord (MA) area resident – in a letter to the editor regarding her own participation in a public vigil each Friday morning at the town center – ‘We Walk for All Who Suffer Because of War.’
this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters
we honor courage in all its forms
cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.
image and poem below the fold
Friends and relatives offer prayers before the burial of Amjad Hamid, in charge of educational programs at Iraqiya state television, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 11, 2006. Hamid was killed by unidentified gunmen Saturday with his driver in Khadra, a dangerous, mostly Sunni west Baghdad neighborhood, the channel said.
(AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)
A U.S. military honor guard carries out of a church the flag-draped casket containing the remains of Army National Guard Sgt. Joshua V. Youmans following his funeral in Flushing, Michigan March 11, 2006. Youmans died Wednesday at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio were he was being treated for burns he received when the Humvee he was riding in Iraq hit a landmine last year.
REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
A member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams holds a sign for American Iraq hostage Tom Fox during a memorial in the West Bank town of Heborn, Saturday, March 11, 2006. The FBI verified that a body found in Iraq Friday March 10, 2006 was that of Fox, 54, of Clear Brook, Va., spokesman Noel Clay said.
(AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
Lake Of Fire
by Curt Kirkwood
as performed by Nirvana on Unplugged in New York
Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don’t go to heaven where the angels fly
They go to the lake of fire and fry
Won’t see them again ’till the fourth of July
I knew a lady who came from Duluth
She got bit by a dog with a rabid tooth
She went to her grave just a little too soon
And she flew away howling on the yellow moon
Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don’t go to heaven where the angels fly
They go down to the lake of fire and fry
Won’t see them again ’till the fourth of July
Now the people cry and the people moan
And they look for a dry place to call their home
And try to find some place to rest their bones
While the angels and the devils try to make them their own
Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don’t go to heaven where the angels fly
They go down to the lake of fire and fry
Won’t see them again ’till the fourth of July
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put a meaningful magnet on your car or metal filing cabinet
read Ilona’s important new blog – PTSD Combat
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
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