Memorial Day with Veterans For Peace, Benji Lewis and Cindy Sheehan

Cindy's son, Casey, who was killed in Iraq on 4/4/04, was born on June 29th, 1979

- three days before my oldest son, Brian, was born. Peace ~ Molly

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Cindy Sheehan will be in Portland on Memorial Day the 25th of May to participate in Veterans For Peace Chapter 72's annual event "From War to Peace". This event begins with a short ceremony at the Memorial Coliseum at 12 noon in the Courtyard of the Korean War memorial. After Taps is played we will march to the Peace Memorial Park where Benji Lewis, a two-tour Marine Veteran/War Resister and Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan will give address to the assembly. There will be music, snacks and good conversation after. As always, the general public is invited to attend.

Later in the day Cindy will give a reading from her new book "Myth America: 10 GreatestMyths of the Robber Class and the Case for Revolution". Doors open at 6pm, reading begins at 630 pm in Main Street Chapel of the 1st Unitarian Universalist Church at 1011 SW 12th Ave in downtown Portland, OR. The reading will be followed by a Reception/Booksigning in the Buchannan Room beginning at around 730 pm. There will be light snacks and coffee available.

Both events are free and open to the public.

For further information send to info@vfpchapter72.org or call (503) 282-5015
Posted on May 12, 2009 by Veterans for Peace #72 Portland

http://oregonprogressivenetwork.org/

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How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. ~ Barry Lopez

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. ~ Buddha

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. ~ Joan Baez