Wednesday April 11

People straggled in during the hour, until we had eight or nine at 6:00PM. Someone in a hurrying pickup shouted through the open window, "I am a soldier!" Seems like our minds are not big enough to accept both military service and peace work at the same time. I was reminded of Paul Chappell, a soldier who served in Iraq and who wrote in his book The End of War that one lesson he learned at West Point was that soldiers work to stay out of war.