3,000 dead in Iraq

Dear GFP Members and friends,

I am forwarding (as an attachment) a very beautiful, very sad letter from Lorraine Krofchok, President of Grandmothers for Peace International (of which we are an affiliate, as most of you already know).

I cannot think of anything to add to her message. I did light a candle and will try to light one every evening until the war and occupation are over. I hope some of you will join the nationwide candle ritual. It will bond us to each other and strengthen our peace-making efforts. Ultimately our mission will be to assure appropriate honor be given to the returning troops, and adequate care to the many who will need it.

Peg


Dear Grandmothers for Peace:

It is yet another sad day for America and families of the now 3,000 dead. What a way to end the year of 2006...

Heart wrenching, devastating, outrageous, misery, depression--whatever you are feeling, it has been an awful year and an awful three years, almost four into this "war". Bush has his revenge, Saddam is dead. Was it worth it for all the lives lost--Americans and Iraqi?

Has he called his daddy and said "look what I have accomplished!" Iraq is in a shambles, the world hates us, the Iraqi people are leaving their homes and fleeing to other countries. Democracy?

One bully has the other bully dead now. What next? Osama, where are you...

Please light a candle, put a number in your window, attend a vigil, or just reflect on all the lives lost. So many young. They never had a start in life. As I have said so often, "what if the cure for cancer or any other devastating disease has died with one of those minds?" It truly is a sad day.

The name of the 3,000th victim is no more or less important than the 2,452 or the first, they all mattered to someone. Who will be the last?

Call Congress on Wednesday--(202) 224-3121--or your local offices.

Demand an end to this war, no more funds, no more "surge", bring them home!

I understand Tuesday will be a "holiday" for government workers because of the death of President Ford. 3,000 Americans will never have another holiday.

Peace to all of us,
Lorraine