[Sorry no link given in forward, but have requested one, if online, from Orange County VFP]
Greetings All!
Paul DuNard is a Veterans for Peace member in Orange County. Paul retired
three days after delivering the address in the text below in what he
characterizes as his "jujitsu moment in teaching." Paul taught over thirty years
and is a Vietnam vet. He addressed an assembly of over 1,000 high school
students at Lynwood High School in Lynwood, California.
This truly is an example of a teacher with courage and determination. We're
hoping Paul will be available one day each month to man a table at a high school
near his home to share his experiences and insights to students.
Paul reports that students appreciated his address and many, many have
thanked him for his remarks.
Wage Peace!
Dan Kelly, President
VFP Orange County
Wednesday, June 1, 2005, Assembly, PAC, LHS
Last Words to Our Young Ones Old Enough to Hear Hard Thoughts from an Old
Teacher Who Has Seen War
War is crime. In particular, war is always a crime against humanity; it always
perpetrates terrorism against the innocent.
The people who instigate war invoke Hell on earth.
The violence of war is an addiction for them; it is their form of crack cocaine.
These instigators are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: War, Pestilence,
Famine, and Death; and some also maintain that they are the Antichrist.
They are cannibals; they devour the souls, the hearts, and the minds of the
young and the innocent.
They use words like honor, freedom, protecting the nation, the godless enemy,
democracy, patriotism, liberty, peace, terrorist or enemy to confuse the
well-meaning, to beguile the unthinking, and to abuse the trust of us all. Learn
from history how these words drip from the tongues of scoundrels. When needed,
learn how to unspin the "Newspeak" embedded in these Orwellian verbal
concoctions of deceit into their true meanings. Understand how they use honor
to mean dishonor; freedom to mean despotism; protecting the nation to mean
putting the nation at risk; the godless enemy to mean the men, women, children,
and infants marked for the slaughter; patriotism to mean crime in the name of
the flag; liberty to mean oppression and slavery; peace to mean war and fighting
terrorists to mean summoning up more and more terrorists to mortally threaten
the homeland and ensure the forever war. Learn how the users of these words
always maintain a safe personal distance from the Hell they conjure up, how they
always offer up the children of other fathers and mothers to the sacrifice.
Smell the essential moral rot of their cowardice and the blood on their hands.
They are the real enemy. They live in the White House. They wear uniforms with
five, four, three, or two stars, or one; they are draped with absurdly pretty
and colorful ribbons. Some wear more gold than others, and, consequently, have
more kill authority. Some wear suits and ties, and no gold, but, instead,
little lapel flags; they wear well-polished shoes with dark silk hosiery. Their
kill authority is immense, historically unprecedented. They all believe in the
medieval practice of torture. They all believe the rule of law is quaint. They
have ill-begotten titles like Commander-in-Chief, Vice President, Secretary of
Defense, Secretary of State, Attorney General. They are the true engineers and
authors, the true begetters of wars, torture, and terrorism against the peoples
of the earth. They are the assassins of history's will and demand for real
democracy, real freedom, and real liberty.
They thrive on the death and the blood of the innocent: fathers and mothers,
sons and daughters, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, grandpas and
grandmas, and our dear little ones, all of whose faces they won't see, whose
names they won't hear and whose sacred being they so summarily dismiss.
If you do not carefully attend to their machinations, their kidnappers will
beguile you into a machine of murder and rapine, a hyper-gangster, nation
drive-by machine. You may dishonor your soul and spirit and sadden your loved
ones if you succumb to these kidnappers' lures and temptations and outrageous
lies
For the love of your life, for the love of your own people and for the love of
the peoples of the earth, Run! Do not look back! Escape these madmen, these
monstrous, maniacal haters and violators of life!
Remember, if these Hell Hounds catch or capture you in their nefarious nets of
death and deceit and deliver you to their prison house of horrors, broken
spirits, and lost souls, we will ever be here to remember you and to hold you in
our hearts, your faces, your voices, and your names. Our every effort will be
to rescue you and deliver you safely into the arms of the ones who begot and
love you and to return you to your Beloved Community, your home and to all those
who will never cease longing for your most speedy return.
Thank you,
Mr. DuNard, English Teacher, Lynwood HS.
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James Starowicz
VFP 'Declaration Of Impeachment'
Sign On and Pass Link To Others
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/impeachment/petition2.htm
USN '67-'71 GMG3 Vietnam '70-'71