Peacework
April 2004



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Peacework has been published monthly since 1972, intended to serve as a source of dependable information to those who strive for peace and justice and are committed to furthering the nonviolent social change necessary to achieve them. Rooted in Quaker values and informed by AFSC experience and initiatives, Peacework offers a forum for organizers, fostering coalition-building and teaching the methods and strategies that work in the global and local community. Peacework seeks to serve as an incubator for social transformation, introducing a younger generation to a deeper analysis of problems and issues, reminding and re-inspiring long-term activists, encouraging the generations to listen to each other, and creating space for the voices of the disenfranchised.

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Reflections

Martha Yager is a staffperson at AFSC-New Hampshire

Boy at Vietnam Memorial
From Hunger of the Heart: Communion at the Wall
© Larry Powell, www.mindspring.com/~atlphoto/Wall.html


Deep sky black stone
Beneath polished surface
playing with the sun,
Your name etched in square grey letters
Across the reflection of my face.
Hands deep in my pockets
I still can't reach out

To touch cold stone reality
All these years later.
I didn't want to come,
Didn't want to feel the ache of failing
Again
To stop the madness.

I'm sorry Eddie.
My eyes wander over other names,
Other women's friends/sisters/fathers/sons
Till reflections of the living
Become stronger than the etching -
And I know why I came.

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