If you have yet to see, hear, read, or feel the commitment of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans against the Middle Eastern wars, here is your chance. If you have not experienced the pain the family and friends of troops feel, now you can. If you think you can only show your support for soldiers by endorsing the wars, then, please ponder the words of Winter Soldier Michael Prysner. He and the experienced troops who walk with him wish to ask for your help. Peruse the passage Prysner presents in this mail.
Please ponder how the wars affect you personally, politically, and even fiscally. Consider the many communities in this country and abroad deprived of funds, all in an effort to participate in and pay for warfare. Try to imagine the many lives and limbs lost, not to mention the emotional traumatic stress. Perhaps, you have already actively considered how our culture has changed, all because we engage in costly battles.
If you had wanted to speak out, and have not, or if you want to communicate in a manner that might touch the President and Congress, please join our servicemen, woman, kin, and acquaintances in a March Forward.
"The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Toiled ever upward through the night."
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Peace comes upon us without much fanfare. Most await an announcement or seek a moment of resolve. However, the message never comes. In this country, in our local communities, and perchance planet wide, a small number of people acknowledge goodwill is not created in an instant. It grows. The transition from warfare to common welfare is invisible. Tranquility enters; and no one stands triumphantly. Buglers do not blow their horns. Twenty-one guns do not salute. Serenity is a state of being. This is true for individuals and for the world as a whole. Harmony, once achieved will be but a hush. Peace grows as a tree does, from the roots up.
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