Comments on: Value Life http://www.peacescooter.com/pro-peace/body-count/ Putting Peace on the Map Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:06:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: daphne http://www.peacescooter.com/pro-peace/body-count/#comment-1433 daphne Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:37:52 +0000 http://www.peacescooter.com/pro-peace/body-count/#comment-1433 Today I helped facilitate an event centered around the principles of Academic Freedom, to which the Freedom of Speech is an important aspect. The intersection of this event with the anniversary of the use of free speech(and a number of other liberties) to declare war had my head spinning. Speech is such a powerful tool. We can use our words for so many things: To say thank you for your sacrifice; to honor the dead; to give thanks for lives spared...Yet, if we use our words to make peace, maybe we will never have to find the words to say to another soldier's family, "I'm sorry for your loss." Today I helped facilitate an event centered around the principles of Academic Freedom, to which the Freedom of Speech is an important aspect.

The intersection of this event with the anniversary of the use of free speech(and a number of other liberties) to declare war had my head spinning.

Speech is such a powerful tool. We can use our words for so many things: To say thank you for your sacrifice; to honor the dead; to give thanks for lives spared…Yet, if we use our words to make peace, maybe we will never have to find the words to say to another soldier’s family, “I’m sorry for your loss.”

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