To War or Not to War - That is the Question

Maine Veterans for Peace members John Morris (top) and Peter Morgan (bottom photo) joined us in Bath on ash Wednesday for the start of the Lenten season vigils at the Navy shipyard.  We carry on again this coming Saturday at 11:30 am and each Saturday in February through to the end of March. Thanks to the Smilin' Trees Disarmament Farm for their Lenten vigil coordination. (Photos by Roger Leisner)

To war

or not

to war

that is the question

Any answer

other than

a resounding 

NO

is too

frightening

and insane

to ponder

Why though

does

the

American

war machine

push on

seemingly

determined

to bomb

and slaughter?

The Massacre of the Innocents

in a technological

rerun

of King Herod

on steroids

Where does this

war cancer come from?

How does one lance

this ugly boil 

of endless 

death mongering?

Shall we 

ignore 

this rush

to war?

Lent is

40-days

of penitence

Where are

the church voices

calling for peace

and for turning

the local

sword making factory

into plowshares? 

Why

is the

silence

so deafening? 

Are we

on our knees

because we 

are in prayer

or in an act

of submission? 


This Day in History:  On February 12, 1997 in "Prince of Peace Plowshares," six activists poured blood and symbolically disarmed U.S.S. The Sullivans, a nuclear-capable Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, at the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. All were eventually convicted of destruction of government property and conspiracy.