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sanjuanpeace
Farmington,
San Juan County, New
Mexico
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Of all the
varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved
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April 2009 |
By Tom
Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com
Liberals and
conservatives
have highly
different moral
priorities. And
we have to
understand them
if we want to
accomplish
anything.
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Alyssa
R Peterson
Army specialist Alyssa Peterson, 27,
was a Flagstaff, Az., native serving
with C Company, 311th Military
Intelligence BN, 101st Airborne.
Peterson was an Arabic-speaking
interrogator assigned to the prison
at our air base in troubled Tal-Afar
in northwestern Iraq. Peterson, a
devout Mormon, had graduated from
Flagstaff High School and earned a
psychology degree from Northern
Arizona University on a military
scholarship. She was trained in
interrogation techniques at Fort
Huachuca in Arizona, and then sent
to the Middle East in 2003.
When she died in Iraq on Sept. 15,
2003, the official reason given was
from a “non-hostile weapons
discharge” and she was memorialized
on the
iraqwarheroes.com site.
Yesterday, after an FOIA request by
a KNAU journalist, it was revealed
that army investigators had
concluded that
Peterson committed suicide after
refusing to participate in interrogation techniques used on
prisoners. She was
reassigned to guard duty at the
Iraqi barracks. Army
spokespersons for her unit have
refused to describe the
interrogation techniques Alyssa
objected to. They say all records of
those techniques have now been
destroyed.
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Lobster
Rock & Mother Nature's Window of
Monument Valley Utah & Arizona.
by William Nakai
(nickname Nihihiro).
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A Dark
Age is a culture's dead end.
We ... customarily think of a Dark
Age as happening once, long ago ...
but in North America we live in a
graveyard of lost aboriginal
cultures, many of which were
decisively finished off by mass
amnesia in which even the memory of
what was lost was also lost.
We all understand the harsh
principle Use it or lose it.
A failing or conquered culture
can spiral down into a long decline,
as has happened in most empires
after their relatively short heydays
of astonishing success. But in
extreme cases, failing or conquered
cultures can be genuinely lost,
never to emerge again as living ways
of being. The salient mystery
of the Dark Ages sets the stage for
mass amnesia. -- Jane Jacobs,
Dark Age Ahead. |
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This site was
established in 2002 and is maintained by a
group of peaceniks in memory of Martin Kumorek, 1943 - 2002.
Marty went to Afghanistan with the PeaceCorp.
as a young man and stayed two
decades with USAID in Afghanistan, becoming
fluent in
Dari. He was forced
to leave a few years after the Soviet
invasion in 1979. Marty's
Afghanistan : a cross cultural view,
and
Area studies : a manual (Kabul) and
Cross-cultural aspects of Peace Corps were
compiled for the PeaceCorp. and the Afghan
Training Center in 1970-73 and are
maintained in the
AREU
in Kabul and in U.S. research libraries. He was
a
reviewer for the
Afghanistan Studies Journal.
This site is maintained in tribute to Marty
and to the San Juan County bring
the troops home / end the Iraq war movement active from
2002 - 2006. It is a site of ideas, diversity,
faiths, and fears. |
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Click
here for
pictures from the Bring the Troops Home movement in San
Juan County, 2002-06 |
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