Monday, May 28, 2012, 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Christopher Columbus Park, Atlantic Ave. at Long Wharf, Aquarium T, Boston

 
Please join Veterans For Peace, Smedley Butler Brigade, Chapter 9 and Samantha Smith, Chapter 45, Military Families Speak Out, Massachusetts Peace Action, and United for Justice with Peace as we commemorate Memorial Day.

 

There will be no parade, no marching band, no military equipment, no guns and drums, no Air Force fly-overs.

 

There will be veterans and supporters who have lost friends and loved ones. Veterans who know the horrors of war and the pain and anguish of loss. There will be friends and families of soldiers, remembering their loved ones. There will be Iraqi Refugees who have suffered terrible losses and will join with us as we remember and show respect for their loss.

 

There will be flowers dropped into the harbor for each fallen U.S. soldier from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Flowers will also be also be dropped into the harbor remembering the loss of Iraqi family and friends.

 

Program

Brian Quirk Merrimack Valley People for Peace	Scottish Bag Pipes
Rev. Lara Hoke Sec. VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade	Opening
Pat Scanlon Coordinator, VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade	Welcome
Lee VanderLann Ex Comm. VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade	In memory of our friend Capt, Paul Brailsford, VFP Samantha Smith Chapter
Bradford Adams VFP, Smedley D. Butler Brigade	A short remembrance of my friend Zalmai, Afghanistan Veteran (2002-2003)
Kevin Lucey Parent of Cpl. Jeffrey Lucey USMC	Return to Hell
Si Kahn	Song – Hunter –(Music from CD)
Bob Funke Smedley D. Butler Brigade	What Memorial Day Means to Me
Bonnie Gorman Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families Vietnam VFP Smedley D. Butler Brigade	Suicide: The hidden wounds of war
Nancy Wrenn Massachusetts Peace Action	Are we finished with war yet?
Webb Nichols Smedley D. Butler Brigade	Poem
Ahmad & Leyla AlZubaydi Iraqi Refugees	Babylon Restaurant, Lowell
Farouq Ali Iraqi Refugee	Arab Spring and Hypocrisy of the West
Brian Quirk	Scottish Bag Pipes
Flower Ceremony
Rev. Ralph Galen Community Church of Lawrence	Closing
Jesse Perrier Ex. Comm. Smedley D. Butler Brigade	Taps