10.25.2005

Tomorrow's Candlelight Vigil for the Dead Soldiers of Iraq

Folks in association with MoveOn.org, Democracy for America, and True Majority (and damn, I'm proud to say the latter two have Vermont DNA all over 'em: DFA with Howard Dean and TM with Ben and Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen) come together with who ever else would like to join them to:

1) pay our respects to the 2,000 US military members officially dead in Iraq and honor their memory, and
2) demand our leaders do better by those still alive and forced to fight an unjust war

The time is 6:30 PM and there will be more than 300 communities around the country participating. To learn where your nearest vigil is or to announce your own, visit here.

For those of you in my area of Vermont being buried in snow by the nor'easter, there are assemblages in Montpelier (where from 6 AM on, a flag for every dead soldier will be planted on the statehouse grounds as each soldier's name is read) as well as the Peace Park in Hardwick, which is, I believe, located next to the Yummy Wok.