Peace Activists Protest At Sub Base

Here are some Christians fighting to save our soldiers lives this Easter weekend!

Groton — For the Rev. Catherine Alder of the First Congregational Church of Lyme, witnessing for peace outside the Naval Submarine Base has become a Good Friday tradition.

“When Jesus was brutalized, he never shouted back, he never hit back, and he turned to forgive,” Alder said as she prepared to march from Pleasant Valley Elementary School to the base, as she does every year. “That's not what we do when we pick up weapons.”

Tina West, one of the congregants at Alder's church, who sports a yellow “Pray for our Troops” sticker on her car, typically goes to a Good Friday service, “But to me, this feels more in the spirit of Good Friday,” she said.

They were among more than 50 people who performed “Stations of the Cross” at the base to observe the holy day.

Cal Robertson of Groton, a Vietnam veteran who holds regular peace vigils at the base and at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in New London, was the first to arrive for the demonstration, carrying two signs, “War is Not The Answer,” and “Will Our Children Have a Future?”

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