Front Yard Today
Today we had our first Freedom Funeral March in Breaking the Silence. We marched from a nearby parking structure to Summerfest, the biggest music festival in the world. We were met with interest, indifference and indignation.
Later in the day the media reported that part of facade on this parking garage fell and the concrete slabs killed a youth. Our march against the greed that breeds war and violence combined with this major local news story made me think of all the children killed in the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the drone attacks on Pakistan. All this dying made me very sad but more determined than ever to break the silence about all this death and destruction. (Tomorrow I will post pictures of the march on Breaking the Silence web page.
The quote by Martin Luther King Jr. on our flyer today was inspired by his awareness of the children being killed by the war in Vietnam. The quote is: “Never again will I be silent on an issue that is destroying the soul of our nation…” The person who marched with us today who was most vehement in his opposition to the war and militarism that has grasped our country was a veteran of the Vietnam war. On the way back he told me that he was injured in Vietnam in 1967 but after recovering went back for another three years. Three of his companions were missing and he felt that by going back he could find them. The senselessness of the Vietnam War and the death and destruction it caused strengthens his opposition to these new endless wars.
The healing today for me came when I went out this evening to do a little work on my gardens. The front yard garden, led up front by 13 lilies in full bloom, is starting to take shape. Not many persons have a front yard that brings healing to the sorrow of his or her soul. But I do. A healing garden is blessing.
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