Promoted by Steven D with minor edits.
“Speak out for those who cannot speak, for the rights of all the destitute.”
Proverbs 31:8
this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters
we honor courage in all its forms
cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.
An unidentified Iraqi man cries after getting the news that doctors could not save his relative, who was critically injured in a roadside bomb attack, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 12, 2006. Bomb blasts, rocket and gunfire killed at least 10 people and injured 23 in the Iraqi capital as the work week got under way Sunday, police said.
(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Bone
by Claudia Emerson
It was first dark when the plow turned it up.
Unsown, it came fleshless, mud-riddled, nothing
but itself, the tendon’s bored eye threading
a ponderous needle. And yet the pocked fist
of one end dared what was undone
in the strewing, defied the mouth of the hound
that dropped it.
The whippoorwill began
again its dusk-borne mourning. I had never
seen what urgent wing disembodied
the voice, would fail to recognize its broken
shell or shadow or its feathers strewn
before me. As if afraid of forgetting,
it repeated itself, mindlessly certain.
Here.
I threw the bone toward that incessant claiming,
and watched it turned by rote, end over end over end.
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put a meaningful magnet on your car or metal filing cabinet
read Ilona’s important new blog – PTSD Combat
view the pbs newshour silent honor roll (with thanks to jimstaro at booman.)
take a private moment to light one candle among many (with thanks to TXSharon)
support Veterans for Peace
support the Iraqi people
support the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC)
support CARE
support the victims of torture
remember the fallen
support Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors – TAPS
support Gold Star Families for Peace
support the fallen
support the troops
support Iraq Veterans Against the War
support Military families Speak Out
support the troops and the Iraqi people
read This is what John Kerry did today, the diary by lawnorder that prompted this series
read Riverbend’s Bagdhad Burning
read Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches
read Today in Iraq
witness every day
Click on the candle to copy the image into your own comment (you can leave it on my server), and/or rate this one – not for mojo, but to leave a small mark after taking this moment.
” I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”
from Dirge Without Music
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
72 Bodies Found in Baghdad in 24 Hours
This picture from Day 186 has so haunted me….
It will be a good day in Iraq when there are no deaths before old age.
Isn’t it strange, Cheney never finished his sentence about “last throes”. Last throes before Civil War Dickhead?
IMPEACHMENT NOW!
No more blood for oil.
RubDMC, I want to thank you for this work you do in bringing this space to us so faithfully. Coming into this place to sit quietly a moment in what feels like a sacred “hush” is very comforting to me. Somehow it connects me those I’ve lost, and helps me stay in touch with the reality of the “oneness” of all of us, all over this world. There really is no “here” vs “over there”, here really isn’t.
Can we believe this man?
“Bush Sets Target for Transition In Iraq”
Peace
You know the more this war goes on, I see it like Afghanistan in the 80’s. One day we will wake up and see what we as a nation have done to their society. What a serious shame. Again, I say, God bless the children. They are the future. Look at the future we are begetting in that country! Thanks, Mike, for all that you do here. hugs.
In this moment of quietness and reflection, it is so important to remember that anger can not rule us unless we allow it to do so. Death and destruction should never consume us as long as we continue to spread our love towards our fellow human beings.
It was asked long ago, “Who is my neighbor?”
Children who are hungry and need food to sustain them.
Men who have lost their jobs and need to feel productive.
Women who have been abused and violated and need their souls restored.
Families who have lost their shelter and still wander to find a place they can call home again.
Nations who are struggling to survive oppression and just want to live in peace and harmony.
They live near and far in places we may never visit, but we must not abandon them in their time of need.
Let us never forget that war brings grief and sadness to everyone involved. Our thoughts and prayers are important to maintaining that connection that binds us together throughout the world.
May we continue to think, pray, and fight for true and lasting justice by acting in love and kindness, even when our initial thoughts are to strike out in anger and hatred.
Thanks for this place where we can gather together and reflect on these things to keep our hearts and minds in tune to the truth we long to reach.
wrote yesterday here about how this pain, bloodshed and grief is being funded by our taxes…
Today the news is more worried about Bush’s poll numbers than the number of the dead children in Iraq and NO.
I want to make the Red Regime sit and see each and every pictures. ALL OF THEM. Push them in their warpig faces.
Our government is nothing but a bunch of filthy, greedy, lying pieces of shitholes.
I’m not too centered today am I… I’m supposed to be getting myself centered and prepared for this weekend… all I feel is rage.
Again, RubDMC, I’m taking you with me. Friday and Sunday. I’m marching.
…No More Deaths.
and all those who are supporting them.
From Suskind’s diary…
Peace, whatever the price.
When I’m in Times Square this weekend I’ll have one hand stretched across the miles to my Sister Janet on the West Coast. Bookends, you and me. It’s called a flanking manouever ;o)
I have a cell phone now maybe we can help each other get centered while traveling to the marches? I’ll be on the met, which means tunnels… but regardless I’d love to be able to talk to you aome part of that day.
Great idea :o)
I’ll email you later this evening with my number too, as soon as my daughter brings my phone home and I can get the number :o)
And in case any wingnuts give you a hassle, just put them on the phone with me!!
Light A Candle For
Peace, Tolerance, Understanding
and For The Children – Innocence Lost!
Lessons of Iraq War start with U.S. history
“The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast;
ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in
conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace: James Madison
The Cost Of Incompetence
A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the
vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family,
each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its
self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and
think its own thoughts.”: James Anthony Froude (1818-1894) Author and historian
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects