Vet's Mom: Pour Out Into The Streets & DEMAND An End To This War!

Iraq
by Iraq Combat Vets Mom
Thu Jul 27, 2006 at 02:52:16 PM PDT
Some thoughts from the Mother of a soldier.

Iraq Combat Vets Mom's diary
Distracted, damn right I am!


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I can not express in words the urgency I feel. So I may lose my job. I may lose my home. I may not eat on a regular basis. Since I started on this mission of peace I have been evicted (some landlords don't like when you post the number of dead) I have had an IRS audit. I have had people look at me with so much hate at times it was unnerving. So What? There our people dying as I write this and another Mother cries.

I am driven; my spirit will not let me rest. I will still stay in the frontlines. I will engage in acts of civil disobedience if necessary, I will not let a politician say they can not see me. And I will always be of peace. I have hugged the recruiter in my town and we have shed tears together. I have hugged the Speaker of the house. I must always show that I am of true peace. I shake the hand or hug every soldier I see. And the soldiers that have made it home, if I come into contact with them I tell them if they ever need help I am here. If there is a soldier who wants out , I will find you refuge.

Martin Luther King Jr. said "There comes a time when silence is betrayal." I have embraced that thought 100%. I do not pretend to have political savvy or be well versed on foreign affairs. I am just the mother of a soldier.

I beseech the people of America step out of your comfort zones; get out of those easy chairs. Pour out into the streets and demand an end to this war. Many of us are out here in the frontlines are waiting, wondering "Where is America?" Our children are dying, again.

Georgia Stillwell

Member of Military Families Speak Out

read the whole letter at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/7/27/175216/431

where shall we go?

:P Seriously, this woman has the right idea; the time is indeed ripe.

from the 14th thru the 19th.

Like we did with the Cindy vigils...

We should be ashamed of ourselves for not doing it sooner, but better late than never.

There are city halls in every city... we should choose several dates and just do it!!! Email every person you can, call others, volunteer to make signs... silent, solemn vigils at night, loud, angry, yet NON-VIOLENT protests during the day... we can do this!

heard squat about anything going on this year. I hope a plan might be evolving.

Info here or at Crawford Peace House:

http://www.gsfp.org/

read that dimson will only be there through the 14th?
I have this, but what will he be doing for the rest of the month?

Bush is going to Crawford:

Washington Wire: "Bush will mix work with vacation time at Crawford ranch. Aides explore August swing to battleground state such as Pennsylvania, where Republicans are defending three endangered House seats and Sen. Santorum. Also planned: one-year commemoration of Hurricane Katrina, viewed by Republican strategists as biggest second-term setback."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/07/21/bushs_work...

And with all vets and their families opposing this war.

Silence is complicity, yet not all complicity, obviously, is silent. Majorities in both parties supported this war and majorities stand in the way of it ending.

If you're one of those pols, you're complicit, and you'll never get my vote again.