(1 comments)        Saturday, May 25, 2013
Memorial Day Reflection: Freedom Isn't Free
SHARE As we are so often reminded by war's supporters, perhaps the reason so many had to die is that freedom is not free. Try as I may, I can't understand the meaning of this explanation and alleged justification for the wanton death and slaughter of so many of God's children.

       Friday, December 25, 2009
Stuck in Traffic on Christmas Eve
SHARE As I waited, aggravated and impatient, in a long line of Christmas traffic for a very slow traffic light to change, a man dressed in Desert Camouflage BDUs slowly limped, cold and tired, down the long row of idling cars. Hanging around his neck was a sign on which was written, "Veteran, will work for wages to feed my family," and in his hand a coffee can hoping for a possible donation.

       Friday, June 8, 2007
A Personal Legacy of War
SHARE As a consequence of the draft, many young Americans who questioned the justness and necessity of the war, were confronted with a profound moral dilemma. Whether to shame oneself and one's family by expatriating ? fleeing to Canada ? or risk injury or death by becoming, in their view, a murderer, or an accessory to murder that disguised itself as national defense. I had an additional option, however.

(1 comments)        Thursday, May 24, 2007
An Open Letter to the Members of the 110th Congress
SHARE As was clearly demonstrated during the last election, America has had enough of an incompetent, deceitful, and arrogant Executive Branch and a cowardly and inept "rubber stamp" Congress. We have had enough of "middle of the road", "do nothing" politics while other people's children continue to die for a mistake.