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

[Karen Medina]

Carl,
I did tell them that you existed -- I told them that we had a couple
of members who were anti-abortion.
I should have said that we had a couple members who were consistently
pro-life. [thereby implying that 99% of the anti-abortion people I
have met are not consistent]

In other words, I might have exaggerated the number of AWARE members.

-karen medina



On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 6:00 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
>  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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karen medina
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