a SoldiersPeace walk - completed successfully

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a SoldiersPeace walk - completed successfully

Marshall Thompson completed his length of Utah walk successfully on 1 Nov 06. Below are excerpts from his journal remarks. Full story at:
JOURNAL www.SOLDIERSPEACE.COM

Our success now depends on voters at the polls on Tuesday. Please "make the calls" - - remind everyone that the day has arrived to effectively express their discontent.



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DAY 27
November 1, 2006

"As I trudged the last mile of my 500-mile peace walk across Utah, the reddest state in the nation, my mind was racing and I wasn’t sure how to feel. People had been asking me all day how I felt. I told them I was excited, and it was true. The walk had been a great success."
" . . .With nearly 490 miles behind me, I met a group of about 150 walkers in St. George, Utah. We walked to a park and had a memorial and then about 50 people made the 10-mile journey to the Arizona border. . . ."
"As we all walked out into the open desert, . . .I remembered a quote from Lao Tzu (Father of Taoism), “When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them in sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe the rites of mourning.”

"Lao Tzu was wisely pointing out that when it comes to war, every victory is also a funeral when you consider all life of equal value. . . . Finishing the 500 miles and showing that the war’s last supporters have changed their minds is a great victory. Yet people are still bleeding out their lives in Iraq and so it is also a funeral. "

" . . So how did I feel when I touched the sign marking the Arizona border on Nov. 1? I felt sad, but hopeful. It was a funeral and a victory. "

Marshall Thompson
www.SOLDIERSPEACE.COM