2000 remembered

This picture would have been a lot more powerful if that women wasn't smiling. This event was nothing to be smiling about!!!! oh well.

Last night there were peace vigil memorials for the 2000 Iraq war soldiers dead, all over the nation. The one in Santa Rosa was quite unique in that they had hundreds of people lining Santa Rosa Ave. at the Old Courthouse Square, while each holding candels, and a long string of photos of each soldier with a bio printed out about each of them. It was quite moving to read the bios of these young soldiers who gave their lives. The soldier that we were holding a picture of, had actually been in favor of the war when he went over there, but his parents later started getting letters from him describing the horrors he was seeing, and how much the Iraqi people hated the US and didn't want us there. He was not a supporter of the war any longer before he was killed.

A speaker made a powerful statement last night when she said that over 1.5 million people have died in Wars in this past century. When people say that war is the only answer for helping to prevent more death from terrorism, she says that 1.5 million war deaths is more than enough reason to risk giving peace a chance.