MEMORIAL DAY - No More Us & Them
May 31, 2010
The newspapers, televisions and radios are full
of real and sad stories
of American families who have lost loved ones
to wars across the planet,
of American families who care for ever-more wounded loved ones,
returned from wars across the planet
In our sadness, in our remembering of, and respect for our dead and wounded,
we implicitly justify and re-justify our wars,
we justify and re-justify the killing and suffering “we” did to “them”,
while condemning and re-condemning
the killing and suffering “they” did to “us”
In our sadness, in our remembering of, and respect for our dead and wounded,
we implicitly state and re-iterate
that “we” were right and good to go to war,
that “they” were wrong and bad to go to war
All of this takes us no closer to our common humanity,
across and inside borders, north-south-east-west,
no closer to our common life-fullness and mortality
Today, we should not remember and commemorate,
and light a candle for "our" soldiers and civilians,
killed and wounded in wars and conflicts
Today, we should remember and commemorate,
and light a candle for all soldiers, "theirs" and "ours",
all civilian victims, "ours" and "theirs",
and all surviving family members and loved ones,
of "us" and "them"
Today, we dedicate ourselves, again,
to live and work to end all wars
and other acts of political aggression and domination,
"ours" and "theirs"
Today, we dedicate ourselves, again,
to another world is possible and necessary
No more “ours” and “theirs”, no more “us” and “them”.
One people, one planet
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Thank-you / Gracias a la vida
Grahame Russell
info@rightsaction.org, www.rightsaction.org
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