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Vets for Peace to light and launch 2,000 candles tonight on Lake Merritt
While most vigils, regionally and nationally, will take place tomorrow night (Wednesday) to commemorate the 2,000th US fatality in Iraq (announced this morning), Veterans for Peace will light and launch 2,000 candles tonight on Lake Merritt.
Message from Paul Cox, Veterans for Peace (SF Bay Area Chapter 69)
Announced early this morning, the war and occupation of Iraq has claimed its 2,000 American casualty, not counting the many thousands of deaths of Iraqis and “coalition” troops, or the dead in Afghanistan. See CNN link.
We no longer count the American deaths by the tens or hundreds, but in the thousands.
A Veterans for Peace working party last night assembled 2,000 candles, cups and foam-core boards that we will be lighting and launching on Lake Merritt tonight. Please be there no later than 7:00 to help set up. Lighting and launching 2,000 candles is a lot of work.
The Peace Navy has volunteered to help control the candles on the lake and round them up afterwards. We will also need help packing the candles and cleaning up.
Announced early this morning, the war and occupation of Iraq has claimed its 2,000 American casualty, not counting the many thousands of deaths of Iraqis and “coalition” troops, or the dead in Afghanistan. See CNN link.
We no longer count the American deaths by the tens or hundreds, but in the thousands.
A Veterans for Peace working party last night assembled 2,000 candles, cups and foam-core boards that we will be lighting and launching on Lake Merritt tonight. Please be there no later than 7:00 to help set up. Lighting and launching 2,000 candles is a lot of work.
The Peace Navy has volunteered to help control the candles on the lake and round them up afterwards. We will also need help packing the candles and cleaning up.
For more information:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/25/...
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TODAY, TUESDAY, OCT. 25, 7:30 PM
The Lighting of 2,000 Candles to Mark the Announcement of the 2000th American Military Fatality in Iraq
Lakeside Park (near Grand Avenue and Bellevue Avenue) on Lake Merritt in Oakland
Sponsors: Veterans For Peace
Contact: Bill Schwalb at 415-285-5627 or Eduardo Cohen at 510-527-8518
“We will be attempting to create a solemn but powerful visual image to demonstrate what the number 2000 really means” explains Paul Cox, a Vietnam combat veteran and co-founder of the Veterans for Peace Bay Area chapter, “so that ten years from now we won’t be building a monument to tens of thousands of American lives needlessly sacrificed like we did after Vietnam.”
The Lighting of 2,000 Candles to Mark the Announcement of the 2000th American Military Fatality in Iraq
Lakeside Park (near Grand Avenue and Bellevue Avenue) on Lake Merritt in Oakland
Sponsors: Veterans For Peace
Contact: Bill Schwalb at 415-285-5627 or Eduardo Cohen at 510-527-8518
“We will be attempting to create a solemn but powerful visual image to demonstrate what the number 2000 really means” explains Paul Cox, a Vietnam combat veteran and co-founder of the Veterans for Peace Bay Area chapter, “so that ten years from now we won’t be building a monument to tens of thousands of American lives needlessly sacrificed like we did after Vietnam.”
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