[AGL] Austin vigil marks 4,000 dead

[Kathy]

My gratitude to everyone who showed up yesterday. Sorry we couldn't  
make it.

Trying to escape into fiction, but this book (Margaret Maron's  
"Fugitve Colors") alas, begins with the attached sonnet by Edna St.  
Vincent Millay, and reminds me of my personal griefs and the millions  
of people who also know  this reality as a result of the stupid Iraq   
war. And  Bush, who killed  their loved ones, dances with the Easter  
Bunny. Reality out-Fellini's   Fellini

  The previous escape book ("Mac Pherson's Lament" by Sharyn Mc  
Crumb) was partly set in the civil war and reminded me of how  
senseless and ugly war is and how long the misunderstandings and  
scars of wars devastation persist. (Centuries) At least "Mac  
Pherson's Lament" had a happy ending. I'm not so sure "Fugitive  
Colors" will, but it has a rich middle. I guess that is as a good a  
philosophy of life as any to live by - make sure your middle is rich  
and interesting because you never know what the ending will be.

thinking too muchand isn't it a glorious spring day?blossoms everywhere.

kathy

"Time does not bring relief.."

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year's bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide!
There are a hundred places where I fear
To go,--so with his memory they brim!
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, "There is no memory of him here!"
And so stand stricken, so remembering him!


On Mar 25, 2008, at 10:46 AM, thorne dreyer wrote:

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> 25 March 2008

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> 4,000 and No End in Sight

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> Coffins mark the U.S. and Iraqi dead at Austin vigil. Photo by  

> Alice Embree.

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> Austin vigil marks 4,000 dead.

> by Alice Embree / March 25, 2008 / The Rag Blog

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> For over a month, CodePink Austin had the 4,000 U.S. dead in Iraq  

> on its mind. A standing call was out for a vigil to mark the number  

> and to remind the public of the human cost of this war - both the  

> U.S. and Iraqi dead.

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> On a day in which Bush was greeting the Easter bunny on the White  

> House lawn, Monday, April 24 at 7 p.m., CodePink was joined by many  

> others in a somber vigil at a busy street corner in Austin.

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> Two coffins were flag draped - the one with the U.S. flag had  

> combat boots on top of it, the other with an Iraqi flag bore the  

> civilian shoes of a man, woman and child. Two tombstones were held  

> behind the coffins with the toll of dead - 4,000 soldiers and  

> 1,000,000 Iraqis. The larger estimate includes Iraqis dead from  

> violence and disruption, including non-potable water and hospitals  

> without electricity. Most of those in attendance wore black.

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> Members of Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS/Austin) and the  

> musicians group, Instruments for Peace joined the stalwart CodePink  

> contingent on Lamar and Sixth Street, near Austin landmarks Whole  

> Foods and the Waterloo Ice House. As the crowd grew to 75, it  

> spread to all four street corners. The familiar MDS signs read:  

> "For Peace, Bring the Troops Home NOW." Other signs read simply:  

> "4,000 Too Many."

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> The event drew attention from the media and from the drivers and  

> passengers at the downtown intersection.It was a brief moment away  

> from the Democratic primary scuffle that the media loves to peddle,  

> away from the Easter bunny, away from the scandals of mayors and  

> governors. It was a time to solemnly mark the death toll and to  

> remember that it keeps steadily rising.

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> On my door I have a tape that I was given at Camp Casey on Easter  

> weekend in 2006. It has the number of U.S. soldiers who have died.  

> The number that weekend was 2,360. Now it is 4,000 with no end in  

> sight.

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> posted by thorne dreyer @ 7:43 AM   0 comments

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