Thursday, May 23, 2013


Memorial Day for PeaceVeterans for Peace logo

Please join us on Monday, May 27 for our Memorial Day for Peace on Boston Harbor.
We have a wonderful program planned: We will remember our friend and partner in peace Charley Richardson, with remarks by Bonnie Gorman and Nancy Lessin.
We will have a remembrance of Hiroshima and Nagaski with David Rothauser, Producer of the film Hibakusha: Our Life to Live, and Kazue Cambell, a Hiroshima survivor.
Sev Bruyn will speak about the Dangers of another nuclear catastrophe and Cole Harrison (Mass Peace Action) will speak about America after Hegemony.
Webb Nichols will share his writing, "Common Thoughts on Our Common Humanity.
A member from the Iraqi community will speak (TBD) and then we will have our Flower Ceremony. Rev. Lara Hoke and Rev. Ralph Galen will say the beginning and ending words.
Brian Quirk will play the bag-pipes and Jesse Perrier will end the program by playing taps.
Please join us and please pass the word to others to also join us.
Thank you,
Pat Scanlon, Coordinator, Veterans for Peace, Smedley Butler Brigade

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 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
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
Brian Quirk Scottish Bag Pipes
Merrimack Valley People for Peace
Rev. Lara Hoke Opening
Sec. VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade
Pat Scanlon Welcome
Coordinator, VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade
Bonnie Gorman / Nancy Lessin In Memory of our friend Charley Richardson
Military Families Speak Out
Gold Star Families Vietnam
VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade
Dan Perkins What Memorial Day Means to Me
VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade, Vietnam veteran
David Rothauser Hiroshima and Nagasaki
VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade
Kazue Campbell Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor
Yoshi Campbell
Sev Bruyn,
Professor Emeritus, Boston College Dangers of another nuclear catastrophe
VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade , WWII veteran
Pat Scanlon Song – Pop There Goes Boston
Coordinator, VFP Smedley D. Butler Brigade (VN 69’)
Cole Harrison America after Hegemony
Executive Director, Mass Peace Action
Webb Nichols Common Thoughts on Our Common Humanity
Smedley D. Butler Brigade, Vietnam Veteran
TBD
Iraqi Refugee
Brian Quirk Scottish Bag Pipes
Flower Ceremony
Rev. Ralph Galen Closing
Community Church of Lawrence
Jesse Perrier Taps
Ex. Comm. Smedley D. Butler Brigade

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