Memorial Day for Peace Please join Veterans For Peace, Smedley Butler Brigade, Chapter 9 and Samantha Smith, Chapter 45, Military Families Speak Out, Mass Peace Action and United for Justice with Peace for our Memorial Day for Peace on Boston Harbor. This year we will mobilize poetry and art in rememberance of the costs of war. As always, we will remember the fallen in war and the victims of war and re-confirm our committment to work for peace.   Memorial Day for Peace May 26, 2014, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Christopher Columbus Park 105 Atlantic Ave. Boston, Massachusetts   Poets include: Eric Wasileski – U.S. Navy Veteran, Persian Gulf Operation Desert Fox   Bob Funke – U.S. Army Veteran, Vietnam War Carrie Schuchardt – House of Peace   Faye George – Author, Published Poet   Ahmad AlZubaydi – Iraqi Refugee – President of Iraqi Forum   Ali AlGeze - Iraqi Refugee – Author, Published Poet   Patrick Doherty – U.S. Army, Iraq War   Solemn Music will include Brian Quirk – Bagpipe player (Merrimack Valley People for Peace) We will recite the names of those fallen from Massachusetts who were killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.  Flowers will be dropped into Boston Harbor in memory of these young men and women. Names of Iraq and Afghanistan civilians killed in the conflicts will also be read by family and friends.  To quote Smedley D. Butler, for whom the Massachusetts Chapter of Veterans for Peace is named and from whom we take inspiration in a statement made after World War II: We mourn deeply all those who should not have lost their lives in war, sadly, perpetrated by misguided leaders, leading a misinformed public and an over-extended military into two immoral wars we greatly opposed. “War is a Racket”! -Smedley D. Butler, Major General U.S.M.C. Thank you, Pat Scanlon Coordinator, Veterans for Peace, Smedley Butler Brigade Bonnie Goreman, RN & John Ratliff Massachusetts Peace Action Board & members Veterans for Peace Directions from Acquarium T Stop on Blue Line: Follow the signs in the station for Waterfront and Aquarium. As you exit the T station, turn right on Atlantic Ave. and turn right again after passing the Long Wharf Marriott. Enter Christopher Columbus Park. The event will be taking place along the harbor, look for the Veterans for Peace white flags.

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