Marking Four Years; Seeking Peace
cross posted at dailyKos
Today I went for a walk in New York City. At 29th Street and 5th Avenue, Marble Collegiate Church has put up this memorial:
Each ribbon tied to the wrought iron fence around the church, has the name and rank of a US soldier killed in action. I was moved deeply by this.
And I wondered whether it might hasten the end of this dreadful war, if memorials to the many dead, US and Iraqi, were now to spring up everywhere, just like the many roadside shrines in the US and Mexico, along with the early spring flowers:
Would constantly seeing these memorials, these Descansos, change anything? Would these reminders of the huge number of the dead motivate us? Would they move us to stop the killing? Would they move our tone deaf Congress? Would they end the war even a minute sooner? Would they help us to remember that it is now time to learn how to make peace?
Today I went for a walk in New York City. At 29th Street and 5th Avenue, Marble Collegiate Church has put up this memorial:
Each ribbon tied to the wrought iron fence around the church, has the name and rank of a US soldier killed in action. I was moved deeply by this.
And I wondered whether it might hasten the end of this dreadful war, if memorials to the many dead, US and Iraqi, were now to spring up everywhere, just like the many roadside shrines in the US and Mexico, along with the early spring flowers:
Would constantly seeing these memorials, these Descansos, change anything? Would these reminders of the huge number of the dead motivate us? Would they move us to stop the killing? Would they move our tone deaf Congress? Would they end the war even a minute sooner? Would they help us to remember that it is now time to learn how to make peace?
posted by david seth michaels at 9:20 p.m.
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