This Thanksgiving Day again reminds me that it is harder for a person stuffed with food to think, pray and act than one who is fasting from food. Too much turkey, stuffing and grape leaves is not good for the digestion system or health.

Our son and his family were here today. My son mostly slept and the grandchildren, outside of dinner time, were busy watching football on TV (like me) or with my wife and daughter-in-law playing card games. My grand children’s dog seem to be the only normal one today, checking out a comfortable chair or couch to rest on or food left around to eat.

I showed my family a group pictures I took on our family trip to Disney World last October. Although everyone says how much fun the trip was there is not much interest is viewing the pictures, although I was able to get them on the TV screen. Memories of the immediate past do not mean as much as anticipation of the near future. When I am not so full I enjoy the present moment the best.

Next week some of us will be having a teach-in event in the Alumni Memorial Union at Marquette. We hope to have flyers and information for students and faculty about military training on a Catholic University campus. In discussing this event this event a friend from the Catholic Worker house in Milwaukee and I discussed what makes Marquette University, a Catholic Jesuit university, different from any other college or university in the area. Thinking about this I can only find one major differences at Marquette. It is the only college or university in the five country metro area to host military training (ROTC) on campus. In fact Marquette hosts for the Department of Defense a School of the Army, Navy/Marines and Air Force. Students from the five county areas that wish to pursue officer training in the military must attend Marquette’s Golden Eagle battalion for classes and training in warfare and killing without conscience.

Perhaps we can engage some students and faculty in dialog and debate about military training at a Catholic university and what we should do, except keep silent, about it. I will make sure not to eat anything before our Teach In.

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