Veterans For Peace – Western North Carolina

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Peace & Planet News – Spring 2024

Please read thoroughly. War and militarism are more out of control than ever. (Click on the link to view all 24 pages.)

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PLEASE TAKE ACTION! Join VFP. Support VFP. Contact your elected representatives. Write letters to the editor. Write OP-ED pieces.

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Here’s the only qualification you need. Just do one of these. If you feel something, you’re qualified.

Now, get busy reading and writing.

The world is depending on us.

As we do every year on Memorial Day, Veterans For Peace remembers the victims of war. America’s militarized culture remembers only our own military casualties while conveniently forgetting the millions more dead and wounded who die in war whom we shrug off as “the enemy” and obscenely dismiss as “collateral damage” — the women, the children, the old and sick, the birds, the four-leggeds, the creatures of the sea, the trees and crops, the billions who go without clean water, education and health care because war has stolen the money. NO ONE wins in war — but even losing wars make money.

We will not honor some deaths and ignore others. We do not glorify either warriors or war because there is no glory in war. Instead, we give witness to the folly and the costs of war – human, economic, political and environmental – on Memorial Day.”You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” Jeanette Rankin, first woman member of Congress“War is a racket!” USMC General Smedley Butler

Gerry Werhan

704.957.2924

Thank you for taking the time to track us down on the internet. We’ve got some work to do to get our new website looking and functioning as we envision. For now, here’s information you can reference to participate in our quest for peace.

• email address for our chapter president (and website creator), me. Gerry Werhan. chapter-president@veteransforpeace-wnc.org

• My personal mobile number: 704.957.2924. I’m always happy to talk with you about any questions you might have.

• Meetings and Actions: For over 20 years, since before the catastrophe of Operation Iraqi Freedom began, our chapter has held a vigil for peace at Pack Square in Asheville every Tuesday afternoon. That vigil continues. Join us from 4:30PM-5:30PM.

• We hold an hour-long monthly membership meeting the last Tuesday of the month from 6:30PM-7:30PM. It is held both in-person and via Zoom. If you’ll email me I can add you to our googlegroup to be kept in the loop about the meeting agenda, zoom meeting link, and other information throughout the month. Our mailing address and meeting location is 15 Overbrook Place, Asheville, NC 28805. Land of the Sky United Church of Christ (a Just Peace Congregation) generously provides meeting and storage space in support of our common goal to eliminate war and injustice in our world.

• If you’d like to know more about our international organization and how to join us as a veteran or non-veteran (associate) member please visit veteransforpeace.org/join

• To reiterate, though, I’m eager to talk or meet with anyone who reaches out with questions. Our goal is to eliminate any obstacles that might keep peace loving people from joining us.

Thanks for investing your valuable time in visiting this website and reading all of this to the end.

And remember, ‘Humankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to humankind.’ – John F. Kennedy