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THIS I DREAM
What world will we create for the next generation? What vision will guide our decisions?
Celebrated Authors & Artists share their dreams for our children. Join us in making their dreams a reality.
...for Peace
Dream by George Ella Lyon
Art by Jamie Bynum
To most people in this country, the war remains conveniently far away. But for my cousin Sarah, it’s soldiers at the door, medals on the table, a future in ashes.
This Memorial Day I sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” and pledged allegiance, not to this war or this administration, but to reclaim my country with its founding ideals of liberty and justice for all. I went to the Memorial Day Observance in Lexington Cemetery in memory of Isaac, 21, blown apart in Afghanistan, whose ashes are scattered somewhere in the woods where he grew up. Isaac was a patriot, prepared to die for his country, for you, for me. And he did die.
I came to grieve for him and to honor his sacrifice, no less supreme because his life was a chip in a power game; one chip in a huge stack bet on the control of oil and all its riches.
