LET US REMEMBER MEMORIAL DAY BY WAGING PEACE
By Anh Lê
This Memorial Day, let us renew our commitment to work for peace.
As we honor Memorial Day, we reflect on the tragedy of war. We also remember how certain wars, started and waged by our own government and elected officials, have been borne by ordinary young American men and women, rather than by those who commenced those wars.
When President George W. Bush ordered the invasion against Iraq, a sovereign nation, in 2003, he claimed that Iraq possessed "weapons of mass destruction."
He even ordered his Secretary of State, Gen. Colin Powell, to the United Nations to give a speech repeating that claim. Yet there were no "weapons of mass destruction"
in Iraq.
Even though Pres. Barack Obama had reduced the number of American troops in Iraq, U.S. troops still remain there. Iraq's people still suffer from the destruction of its land and infrastructure that occurred during the war; and the war and fighting and killing continue.
After the invasion against Iraq began, a friend of mine, Paul, an Army veteran who had been captured by the Nazis in France during World War II and was a prisoner of war, said to me, "Damn it, this war that Bush is starting against the Iraqis, do you see his kids being sent over there? Do you see ANY kids of Senators and Congressmen being sent over there? Do you see the kids from privileged and rich families over there? No, it's always somebody else's kid!"
The questions my friend Paul asked, are as relevant today as they were then - - not only for the U.S. War in Iraq, but also for the U.S. War in Afghanistan, and the U.S. War in Vietnam which ended in 1975. (
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VIETNAM VETERAN KEEPS MEMORIES ALIVE
FOR FALLEN HEROES' LOVED ONES
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Daytona Beach News Journal Reporter Casmira Harrison Spoke with Ray Bows and Pia Bows about their little known book "In Honor and Memory," that lists the names of fallen soldiers whose comrades named installations after them. See Harrison's article and the video by Lola Gomez. Click the Image.
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SAN FRANCISCO BLACK FILM FESTIVAL CONTINUES MEMORIAL DAY TRIBUTE ON FATHERS DAY, JUNE 18 @ MARINES' MEMORIAL
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#SFBFF Festival Co-Director & talented graphic artist, Kali O'ray captured the essence of "Love Separared in Life...Love Reunited in Honor" for special Veterans and Father's Day Salute June 18th at Marines Memorial Hotel.
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San Francisco-Among the more than 50 films from around the world to be screened at the nineteenth San Francisco Black Film Festival at venues to include SPUR, the DeYoung Museum, the African American Arts and Culture Complex, the War Memorial Building and Marines' Memorial Club and Hotel, is its publicist Jackie Wright's documentary "Love Separated in Life...Love Reunited in Honor" that shows the impact of the war on citizens as a result of governmental decisions.
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Love Separated in Life...Love Reunited in Honor," a documentary short of less than fifteen minutes spans fifty years and two
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Poster courtesy of Jackie Wright. Click Image to see trailer of "love Separated in Life...Love Reunited in Honor."
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continents as the Wright family in the United States touch the Quang Family of Vietnam as a result of two anniversary gifts commissioned by Sp5 Wyley Wright Jr. to honor "Ouida, the Love of My Life."
The story begins fifty years after Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara witnessed Sp5 Wyley Wright Jr.'s death on March 9, 1964
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San Francisco Black Film Festival Media Briefing & Film Screening June 14
San Francisco Black Film Festival "Sankofa Connecting the Dots" & Doing Business in Africa for Commerce & Healing" @ SPUR with FAMU Professor Brian Sims
"Sankofa...Connecting the Dots"-Damon Jamal (director/photographer)-40 minutes- is a documentary based on a historic California Trade Mission to Durban, South Africa, during the inaugural Essence Magazine & City of Durban's "Essence Durban Festival" in November 2016. "Sankofa...Connecting the Dots" lives up its name. Following the screening of the film at SPUR, an organization dedicated to "Ideas and Action For a Better City," there will be a panel discussion "Doing Business in Africa for Commerce and Healing." Panelist to date will include Damon Jamal, San Franciscan Roland Washington, producer of the film and sponsor of the California Trade Mission to Durban, South Africa, and Florida A&M Professor Brian Sims, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, who has led several student and faculty trips to Africa.
Visit www.sfbff.org for more films, panels, parties, "My Dad Is My Hero" Contest and more!
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