Memorial Day for Peace Please join us on Monday, May 27 for our Memorial Day for Peace on Boston Harbor. We have a wonderful program planned: We will remember our friend and partner in peace Charley Richardson, with remarks by Bonnie Gorman and Nancy Lessin. We will have a remembrance of Hiroshima and Nagaski with David Rothauser, Producer of the film Hibakusha: Our Life to Live, and Kazue Cambell, a Hiroshima survivor. Sev Bruyn will speak about the Dangers of another nuclear catastrophe and Cole Harrison (Mass Peace Action) will speak about America after Hegemony. Webb Nichols will share his writing, "Common Thoughts on Our Common Humanity. A member from the Iraqi community will speak (TBD) and then we will have our Flower Ceremony. Rev. Lara Hoke and Rev. Ralph Galen will say the beginning and ending words. Brian Quirk will play the bag-pipes and Jesse Perrier will end the program by playing taps. Please join us and please pass the word to others to also join us. Thank you, Pat Scanlon, Coordinator, Veterans for Peace, Smedley Butler Brigade Memorial Day for Peace May 27, 2013, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Christopher Columbus Park 105 Atlantic Ave. Boston, Massachusetts Please join us 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 as we commemorate Memorial Day on Monday May 27, 2013 There will be no parade, no marching band, no military equipment, no guns and drums, no Air Force fly-overs. There will be veterans and supporters who have lost friends and loved ones. There will be veterans who know the horrors of war and the pain and anguish of loss. There will be friends and families of soldiers, remembering their loved ones. There will be Iraqi Refugees who have suffered terrible losses and will join us as we remember and show respect for their loss. There will be flowers dropped into the harbor for each fallen U.S. soldier from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Flowers will also be also be dropped into the harbor remembering the loss of Iraqi family and friends. Program Brian Quirk Scottish Bag Pipes Merrimack Valley People for Peace Rev. Lara Hoke Opening Sec. VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade Pat Scanlon Welcome Coordinator, VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade Bonnie Gorman / Nancy Lessin In Memory of our friend Charley Richardson Military Families Speak Out Gold Star Families Vietnam VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade Dan Perkins What Memorial Day Means to Me VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade, Vietnam veteran David Rothauser Hiroshima and Nagasaki VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade Kazue Campbell Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor Yoshi Campbell Sev Bruyn, Professor Emeritus, Boston College Dangers of another nuclear catastrophe VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade , WWII veteran Pat Scanlon Song – Pop There Goes Boston Coordinator, VFP Smedley D. Butler Brigade (VN 69’) Cole Harrison America after Hegemony Executive Director, Mass Peace Action Webb Nichols Common Thoughts on Our Common Humanity Smedley D. Butler Brigade, Vietnam Veteran TBD Iraqi Refugee Brian Quirk Scottish Bag Pipes Flower Ceremony Rev. Ralph Galen Closing Community Church of Lawrence Jesse Perrier Taps Ex. Comm. Smedley D. Butler Brigade