Rolf's invocation for Jim's Peace Building talk is definitely worth repeating here for those who missed it.
William Tecumseh Sherman said:"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell."
Carrying back our dead and wounded from Vietnam on board my C-141 hospital aircraft, I have only seen a tiny fraction of the horrors myself. This small personal measure causes me to search for the words.
Let’s use the word of war:
- To kill the lie that war is inevitable!
- To kill the lie that war is glorious!
- to kill the lie that war is an appropriate and an ultimate solution to conflict!
Let’s hear how Rotary has a role in ending war in this century
