Letter to the Editor

Tonight's presentation at the Walpole Public Library was atonishingly powerful. Dr. Nancy Hendrie came and spoke about her amazing work in Cambodia. This is a country that has some of the worst poverty in the world, and the images and stories she shared were hearbreaking: The Sharing Foundation

Also, received this via e-mail; it was written by a member of the Group (not me) ...

Dear Editor of the Walpole Times, 

The Walpole Peace and Justice Group has prepared a banner with 2129 stars, each bearing the name of a US soldier, killed in the Iraq war. The act of creating this banner was a moving experience as we placed each star and name and recognized the magnitude of the loss. 2, 129 of our service men and women and over 100,000 Iraqi people have died in this war. Unimaginable destruction, prisoner abuse, botched reconstruction, manipulation of the Iraqi press, chaos and the threat of civil war, all of this the US has brought upon the people of Iraq. The Iraq war has also resulted in a world wide increase in anti American sentiment and threat of terrorist attacks. One must be outraged as evidence mounts that the Bush Administration manipulated intelligence data to justify the war. No weapons of mass destruction, no evidence linking 9/11 or Bin Laden to Sadam Hussein have been found. The continuing presence of US military forces in Iraq now serves as a lightening rod and is counterproductive in resolving the disorder there. The United States should pull our troops out of Iraq now. 

The banner representing the 2,129 US dead in Iraq will be held at a peace vigil on Walpole Common this Saturday, December 10th from 10 AM to Noon. The public is welcome to join us, to see the banner, and to call on the Bush Administration to bring our troops home now!