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Rafe Pilgrim, after "a life largely wasted on hard honest work," found himself a jungle of turkey oak, scrub pine and giant palmettos up a dirt road running east of Crystal River, Florida, which neither school busses nor the U.S. Postal Service dare to assay. Sharing a house of his own design with Spanky the cat, Darla a pit bull, and a foundling of mysterious breed named Alfalfa -- all collectively known as Our Gang -- he spends his time "productively: writing poetry, working for peace, and gazing at the sky."
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Central High School of Philadelphia, University of Maryland, Syracuse University, University of Maine, Ursinus College, Air Force Intelligence (Washington D.C., Germany), Ford Motor Company, Philco-Ford Corporation, Eighth Day Gallery, Phi Kappa Phi, Romey Everdell Award for Journalism,(1988), Hole in one (1998), and struggling to find America ever since 2000.
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 14, 2007 Lying Goes Local
The lying to justify the Iraq War has descended to my small community.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 2, 2007 Open Letter to My Peacenik Friends
The peace movement has been ineffective in achieving its announced goals. More and different actions must be initiated if we are to finally to end the Iraq War and to prevent other wars
SHARE Thursday, May 17, 2007 Who's to Blame?
Who bears the responsibility for the war in Iraq, our degraded international relations, and our loss of civil liberties, and our coorupt and greed-mongering domestic agenda?
SHARE Wednesday, April 25, 2007 Budget for Slaughter
Budgets to support the Iraq war have bought us nothing but casualties for our troops and misery for the American people.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, April 20, 2007 Poem: return flight
The bodies of our soldiers killed in Iraq are flown to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, then forwarded for burial. The mortuary operations at Dover are surrounded by the tightest security, not as protection against terrorism but to minimize exposure of the war's grisly price.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, March 23, 2007 Supplementally the People Lose Again
The Democratic House's "Supplemental" betrays the voters who elected them to bring us peace.
SHARE Tuesday, March 20, 2007 The United States Peace Force
In the face of a treacherous administration, a dithering and feckless Congressional majority, and an ineffective peace movement, it is time for the people to rise to the task to get the peace and to resuscitate the Constution before it is too late.