Saturday June 11

About eight people present for most of the vigil. Toward the end a young woman came by to ask what we were doing. To a couple of the vigil-ers, not to the entire group, she voiced strenuous disagreement with the vigil's basic positions: in her words, as best as I can, she is a Republican; war is good because only by making war can we stay free; and President Obama has greatly damaged the country by spending money elsewhere, instead of working to repair the economy of the United States. Whatever one thinks of her arguments (I agree with her to some extent), I think that the heated "conversation" did not build bridges or change minds. But I do not know whether that is why the vigil goes on.