Not surprisingly, this bunch has marched against U.S. wars til their feet ache and them some. Thursday night we assembled for worship at St. Paul's Church in Oakland and brought some of the boots from the American Friends Service Committee's exhibit Eyes Wide Open with us. Each pair of boots is tagged with the name of a U.S. serviceperson who died in Iraq.
Sergeant John E. Allen of Palmdale is not coming back.
Neither are over one million Iraqis. The number is so vast, the human suffering so incalculable, the mind and heart cannot absorb it.
After dark, we stood alongside the boots and prayed for all the victims of war.
How long will the people of the United States remain complicit in wars of choice, wars of conquest? How long must we walk and vigil and hold on to hope and love? How long?
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I wish I could be there... Was at the Urban Caucus meeting in Raleigh last year. But I can't get away right now and couldn't afford it even if I had the time. Hug Ethan for me!
P.S. I see my Assisting Bishop Chip Marble in the back there! Tell him we're friends. And love as always to the Fabulous Partner.
Jane -- first thing I did when I met Chip Marble was say "I know someone in North Carolina ..."
:-)
Chip is great. He's the real deal.
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