A TV News crew from Montreal, CBC-French Language TV, was present to film the vigil and interview participants. Our vigil has also been filmed for news reports in Australia, France, Paris and Tokyo.
Fayetteville NC Memorial Peace Vigil -- May 19, 2004
Quaker House and Fayetteville Peace With Justice have been holding periodic peace vigils in downtown Fayetteville NC since March 2003. For our May 19 vigil, peace activist Beth Pratt, whose husband recently returned safely from combat duty in Iraq, proposed that we include a visible memorial to all the US troops killed there to date. With Beth leading the way, volunteers hand lettered almost 800 names on ten display boards: Two of them are red, and include the names of those killed before "major combat" was declared "over"; the other eight boards were green, and included the names of those killed since then, up until early May. The boards also included reminders of the many more Iraqi dead, as yet uncounted and unnamed.
Listing and reading the names of casualties was often part of peace actions during the Vietnam war; this is the first group memorial that we know of in this war, and we commend it to the consideration of others.
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A TV News crew from Montreal, CBC-French Language TV, was present to film the vigil and interview participants. Our vigil has also been filmed for news reports in Australia, France, Paris and Tokyo. |
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