I write this letter to ask for your financial support for our
important and much needed organization.I, like many Vietnam War veterans, anguish over what we have done in war. There is no undoing that. Many have chosen to self-medicate and many have chosen to take their own lives. But more than a few of us have dedicated our lives to facing up to our responsibilities as military veterans and to using that experience as a positive force.
Now, as we celebrate our thirtieth anniversary as an organization, I write as a parent and grandparent who is even more convinced that VFP holds a very special place in the pantheon of peace organizations willing to force the militarists back on their heels.
We are not content to wring our hands or to wallow in self-pity. We are committed to opening up our hearts and our minds for others to see what war has wrought in us, and what war has done, is doing, to those innocents caught up in the crossfire. We go into schools; we go to jail; we hit the streets; and we go into legislators' offices with a clear eye to our goal -- to abolish war -- and a commitment to nonviolence in word and deed. We will not be denied our voice, a voice earned by many of us from the very crucibles of war that we will not allow war hawks to push our children into.
We have the heart and the spirit, the creative energy
and the burning passion, the soul and the smarts to bend the arc of history
toward a moral pinnacle of peace and justice. We just don't have
enough money.
Sincerely,
Doug Rawlings
or mail your gift to:
Veterans For Peace
1404 North Broadway
St. Louis MO 63102
1404 North Broadway
St. Louis MO 63102
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Veterans For Peace, 1404 North
Broadway, St. Louis, MO 63102, 314-725-6005
www.veteransforpeace.org |
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