IMAGINE PEACE. For six years, Women in Black and Maine Veterans for Peace have stood in front of the Farmington Post Office every Friday at noon, contemplating the sadness and carnage of war, including the thousands of Iraqi and American lives lost in our war in Iraq.
Though none of us can predict the outcome, we can now begin to imagine the cessation of American military involvement in that country, and the healing it might bring to both American and Iraqi families.
We will mark that sobering six-year milestone at our vigil this Friday, March 20 by holding up large letters that spell our “IMAGINE PEACE” in English and many of the world’s languages. We invite you to join us in imagining what a world dedicated to healing the Iraqi and American wounded, and to rebuilding the ravaged infrastructure of Iraq, would look like, and what we can do to help bring about that transformation.
Joan Braun
Weld, Maine
Why not take your time and money and give it all to the wounded warriors, instead of cluttering the public way with your anti American complaints!
Hats off to the Women in Black
Your unwavering support for our troops should be admired. This is real support wanting them to come home and ending the conflicts that make soldiering necessary.
You are definitly not anti american
I don’t see you sitting on American flags
Those troops will no longer be dying in Iraq because your president is sending them to die in Afghanistan instead.
You mean our president? or are you Canadian?
Unfortunately even W was my president too.
I would love to have peace in harmony but unfortunately we live in a time were radical Muslims want to destroy the western world and convert us all. I am all for people believing how they want but these woman need to realize that given the chance the radicals would kill anyone who has a different way of thinking. (Iran for example, Taliban) If you all were protesting there you would be wearing full Arab dress from head to toe. I am telling you if we do not take the fight to these people they will be here on our shores killing many innocent Americans. I would rather put my life on the line so my daughters and the rest of my family do not have to see the horrors of war. I have been deployed to the Middle East 3 times and I will gladly go again until Radical Muslims are defeated. I would rather fight on distant shores than have the them here. These protesters need to take there heads out of the sand and think some before saying what they do. Our way of life is being paid for with the blood of Soldiers so we can be free.
“Freedom is not free it paid for with the BLOOD of many great American Soldiers”
War is hell but the men and woman volunteered to serve there country.