[Peace-discuss] war is part of the cycle of life / conversation at the table today

[C. G. Estabrook]

  You didn't tell the vet's wife to come back and talk to me?


On 8/28/10 5:49 PM, Karen Medina wrote:
> Paraphrased discussion today at the sweetcorn table:
> Vietnam Vet's wife: "You don't have anything about abortion on this
> table."  She had not even looked yet.
> Karen: "We are a one issue table, anti-war."
> [I'll skip a few lines to get to the irony]
> Vietnam vet himself: "War is a part of the cycle that is part of life.
> Can't stop it. Don't want to."
> R: "Several countries, more developed than the U.S. live without
> aggression toward other countries. The Netherlands, Germany, ..."
> VV: "But they have their own worse problems."
> Karen, later, after they had walked away: "Child abuse is a cycle too.
> An abused child is more likely to abuse his/her own children. But some
> people decide they can end the cycle."
> [all comments were paraphrased]
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