Reply #16: Beyond Washington - thats exactly right

[zippy890]

we've got to get past focusing on Washington DC politics

in our towns, our communities our states we can make our voices heard, whether its one-on-one with family and co-workers, or organizing locally.

http://www.mass-impeach.org/

http://www.greenmountaindaily.com/userDiary.do?personId=433

As the deaths in iraq mount, the sadness is hitting closer and closer to home, when I heard this interview with the father of a son just killed, I started crying in my car.
send this link to people, it just might change one person's mind, make it personal and real:

http://www.here-now.org/shows/2007/05/20070518_9.asp

"Andrew Bacevich, a retired Army officer who served in Vietnam and has become a noted conservative critic of the war in Iraq, talks about his son Andrew, who was killed in Iraq. Andrew was a first lieutenant. He died on Mother's Day in a suicide bombing north of Baghdad"

thanks H2O man for helping us re-direct our energy, and posting this, thanks for your inspiration and optimism.

One of the captured US military is from the next town over from me, Lawrence, MA.

Apart yet together we can speak to our neighbors, the people we have contact with, we can move forward toward a better day in this country.