Friday, November 11

Darkness is again part of the vigil.  It is harder to see the people who wave as they pass us.  With this visual  uncertainty we can choose to declare all gestures to be affirmative for the cause of peace.  A man with a 99% sign joined us for the hour after giving the afternoon to standing at Bank of America in the spirit of the growing Occupy movement.  11 for most of the mostly wet hour.  We heard about the annual veterans day parade in Albany - which included a contingent of nuclear test site veterans.  A young man offered us the 1/4 sheet flyers that VFP passed out - giving the Armistice Day history of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918,  as the end of that "war to end all wars".   Here we are 93 years later with a deep habit of war as a fact of our national policy.