November 11, 2017

On Veterans Day, November 11, 2017

..."we must devote ourselves to ending war. Each of us is responsible."

From Haunted by the Ghosts of War
by Edward Curtin

  "Many of the wounds of war are psychological and spiritual. And so many of the victims suffer silently. Often misused and abused by their own government, they suffer (to paraphrase Douglass Valentine in his book, The Hotel Tacloban, a son’s riveting tale of his combat veteran father’s haunting by war) “in an anguish so profound and so abiding that they live in torment ever after.” War’s terrors follow them everywhere down their nights and down their days, and they can often find no escape from the nightmare images that populate their minds, flashing in and out. It’s beyond imagining the living hell of children worldwide reliving the sight of the bloodied mangled bodies of their parents at their feet, victims of bombs or death squads or perhaps “collateral damage,” as if any words or reasons could undo their everlasting trauma.

We owe it the wounded, dead, and tormented war victims everywhere to memorialize them with the words:

War is a lie, and only truth will free us.

Then we must devote ourselves to ending war. Each of us is responsible."

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See videos of the September 2017 conference:
No War 2017: War and the Environment