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March 20, 2006
Heroes
Often, when I read the newspaper I cut out articles about people who have shown courage in their lives and I keep them in a Heroes folder that I can visit from time to time when I need models to muster my own courage.
One such clipping was about Tom Fox, the American peace activist who was kidnapped and slain in Iraq where he had gone with a peace group. He was a member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams, a group that opposes the Iraq war and has criticized treatment of detainees in U.S. and Iraqi jails. Reports said that he had apparently been tortured by his captors before being shot multiple times in the head and dumped on a trash heap in western Baghdad. Such a terrible way to die.
A young man, Sean Wilner, who knew Fox recalled words that Fox had said during a trip back to Virginia last summer about why he wanted to go back to Iraq. ''He said there were plenty of people out there willing to die for war but few willing to die for peace,'' said Wilner. You can read the blog that Tom Fox kept at www.waitinginthelight.blogspot.com
How many of us are prepared to die for peace?
Posted by billz at March 20, 2006 10:25 AM
