| UNSUNG HEROES  |
THERE ARE
DIFFERENT WAYS TO FIGHT FOR YOUR COUNTRY. SOME OF OUR GREATEST
HEROES FOUGHT FOR PEACE RATHER THAN WAR. MANY TOOK RISKS AND ALL
MADE SACRIFICES. IT IS TIME TO HONOR THEIR COURAGE AND
ACCOMPLISHMENTS. WE MAY NEVER KNOW JUST HOW MANY LIVES THEY
SAVED BUT IT IS CLEAR THEY CREATED A BETTER WORLD BY THEIR
EFFORTS. JOIN ME IN HONORING THEM!
| "Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God" |
THESE PEOPLE DESERVE A PLATINUM STAR FOR THEIR BRAVERY:
| Jane Fonda Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. John Kerry Joan Baez David Dellinger Thomas Merton Benjamin Spock Pete Seeger Phillip Berrigan Natalie Maines Muhammad Ali |
Linus Pauling Henry David Thoreau William Sloane Coffin Daniel Berrigan Tom Hayden Cindy Sheehan Chief Joseph Jesse Jackson Ted Turner Ron Kovic Dorothy Day |
PEOPLE FROM MANY LANDS HAVE WORKED FOR PEACE:
| Buddha Jesus The Dalai Lama Nelson Mandela Aung San Suu Kyi Desmond Tutu Thich Nhat Hanh |
Mahatma Gandhi Bono John Lennon Kofi Annan Harry Belafonte Albert Schweitzer |
SOME PEOPLE WORKED TO MAKE PEACE WITH NATURE
| Rachel Carson Julia Butterfly Hill |
John Muir All PETA Members |
SOME HAVE REALIZED THAT THERE IS NO PEACE WITHOUT JUSTICE FOR ALL
| Dennis Banks Wilma Mankiller Harvey Milk Russell Means Frederick Douglass Levi Coffin William Jefferson Clinton James Earl Carter Betty Friedan Sojourner Truth |
Cesar Chavez Malcolm X Jane Addams Rosa Parks Harriet Tubman Hillary Rodham Clinton Ramsey Clark Harry Hay (Mattachine Founder) Al Sharpton Ward Churchill |
OUR NATION AND OUR WORLD OWES GREAT RESPECT AND DEEP GRATITUDE TO THESE PEOPLE WHO PUT GREED AND HATE ASIDE AND ANSWERED TO A HIGHER CALLING.