Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans For Peace: Memorial Day for Peace

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Memorial Day for Peace

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 D. 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. See the Facebook Event page at this link.

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 for the Event, Memorial Day for Peace 2013

Brian Quirk, Merrimack Valley People for Peace - bagpipes
Rev. Lara Hoke, UU Congregation in Andover, Secretary of the Smedley Butler Brigade of VFP - Opening
Pat Scanlon, Coordinator of Smedley Butler Brigade of VFP - Welcome
Bonnie Gorman/Nancy Lessin, Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families - In Memory of Charley Richardson
Christopher Sheen, Iraq vet - "What Memorial Day Means to Me"
David Rothauser - Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Kazue Campbell - Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor
Sev Bruyn, WWII vet and Prof. Emeritus, Boston College - "Dangers of Another Nuclear Catastrophe"
Pat Scanlon, Vietnam vet - sings "Pop, There Goes Boston"
Cole Harrison, Mass Peace Action - "America after Hegemony"
Webb Nichols, Vietnam vet - "Common Thoughts on Our Common Humanity"
Allaa Alkhuthairy, Iraqi refugee - "Effects of War in Syria on Iraq"
Raya Shandi, Iraqi refugee and Lowell High School Student - Poem "I Am"
Brian Quirk - bagpipes
Flower Ceremony
Rev. Ralph Galen, Community Church of Lawrence - closing
Jessie Perrier, Exec. Comm. of Smedley Butler Brigade of VFP - taps

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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

We, having dutifully served our nation, do hereby affirm our greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace. To this end we will work, with others

(a) To increase public awareness of the costs of war.
(b) To restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations
(c) To end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons
(d) To seek justice for veterans and victims of war
(e) To abolish war as an instrument of national policy.

To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace.

Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans For Peace

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Memorial Day for Peace

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