Re: [ru] Re: [ncte-talk] World Trade Center (fwd)

[Kate Sholl <ksholl@monitor.net>]

We did a 12:30 PM minute for peace and lit candles last night at 7PM. We
have talked a lot and we watched the tv together on Tuesday, though Kenny
and Avery left to go fly model airplanes around 5PM that day as Kenny
(dad) was overwhelmed. We did talk about fear. Both Kenny and I were/are
dismayed by the possibility of war and what that will mean to those boys
we know through Oona and through the larger homeschooling community.

We live next door to the only people in our town who celebrated the
bombing, setting off firecrackers and bottle rockets that evening. The
contrast between their home and ours couldn't be bigger. This has made for
some interesting conversations also -- Avery asking why so many people are
flying flags; do they all want to go to war? We talked about how some are
probably showing unity as a nation and might not want war, but that we can
see how it might look like warmongering. We have a small contingent of
good 'ol boys who drive up and down the main street here, with american
and confederate flags in the bed of their pickup trucks, blasting the
national anthem out their windows. These are not people with whom we feel
any empathy and it cheapens anything red, white and blue for me.  At any
rate, being part of a larger family that has been fighting for indigenous
people's rights for generations, our discussions have had a wider flavor
than "might makes right," etc.

Kate Sholl