<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>I love you, Martin and your family! </div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">-Karen Medina</div><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Martin Wolske <martin.wolske@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 7/4/17 12:24 (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: Karen Medina <kmedina67@gmail.com> </div><div>Cc: Peace List <peace@lists.chambana.net> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Peace] Why I will be marching in the July 4th parade </div><div><br></div></div><div>Thank you so much for this important insight, and for the response of you and your family! <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Martin</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 4, 2017 10:00 AM, "Karen Medina via Peace" <<a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">A friend wrote: <span class="m_9042755578839921930gmail-m_5630768802680390590gmail-im"> I’ll stay home and watch the Red Sox play</span><br><span class="m_9042755578839921930gmail-m_5630768802680390590gmail-st">Sitting on one's couch is always an option. <br><br>The 4th of July commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence</span>. It is true that some have co-opted it as a celebration of wars that the United States have fought. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">The theme of the Champaign County celebration is, ‘Salute To Education,’<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">This theme is particularly important, especially because we as a country fail miserably at education. <span class="m_9042755578839921930gmail-m_5630768802680390590gmail-im">We, miseducated Americans, continue to allow US presidents
to kill between 20 and 30 million people since 1945, for the profits of
the US 1%. Let us join together to improve education and help people develop critical thinking in our country. <br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"> <br>Or we could sit on our couches. <br><br>As
for me and my house, we will join the parade which begins at 11:05 a.m.
near First and Florida, continues East on Florida to Lincoln Avenue
then proceeds North on Lincoln Avenue to California. I will be walking
with the Immigration Forum. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Sincerely, <br></div>Karen Medina</div>
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