[Mb-hair] FW:Exhibit aims to bring home human costs of Iraq conflict

[tina]

Michael, I so remember Hair....remember I am older then every
remembers...and my sweet wonderful father forgets....I will turn 50 next
June as my father just does not recall my age..but hey if I were him I
wouldn't either...my father looks so fantastic and usually go to visit him
and Sandra every summer...this summer have not been able to get there for
business reasons...but hope to late summer early fall....I have a great time
with dad my week in DC and Virginia!...he has an awesome wonderful away
place in alittle small town about 50 minutes from Dulles airport..you should
go visit him..he is my touch stone and I enjoy each and every minute with
him...I am in the middle of selling 24 units of a new construction condo
being built on Coldwater Canyon in Studio City and my grand opening is not
until Sept. 11th, so I have not been able to do my yearly trip to spend with
dad..but hoping that the units sell fast and I can get out there to be with
him for at least a week as usual...before the dead of winter hits...Have you
met his woman Sandra..she is wonderful and he seems to be the happiest I
have ever seem my father ever.....she appears to be the woman for him...and
they have a great life together in Virginia...I like her alot and am so
happy for dad!.....There sense of humor is complete and they seem so very
connected!..It is great to see!....Oh Michael light years away from the
Terri days.....and those days are a horse of a different color are they
not!.....hope to see you soon, Tina
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From: "Little Birdie" <lbirdie at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 11:42 AM
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW:Exhibit aims to bring home human costs of Iraq
conflict


> I wonder what made them choose the title for this exhibit?
>
> "Our eyes are open, our eyes are open....Wide, wide, wide........"
>
> Nina
>
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>
> Daily Hampshire Gazette
> Exhibit aims to bring home human costs of Iraq conflict
> By NICK GRABBE Staff Writer
>
>
> AMHERST - Kevin English of Amherst was close to tears as he walked past
908
> pairs of black combat boots, each bearing the name of a U.S. soldier
killed
> in Iraq.
>
> I find it seriously moving, said English, a Vietnam veteran. ''It's not a
> protest; it's a fitting memorial for those who have died.''
>
> The exhibit on the town common Tuesday also included 1,000 pairs of shoes
> placed in concentric circles, a memorial to Iraqi civilians killed in the
> war. Called ''Eyes Wide Open,'' the exhibit also included a 10-minute
video
> on justifications for the war, photographs of Iraqi civilians, and a
> sculpture of 10,000 bullets molded into a plowshare, a biblical reference
> symbolizing peace.
>
> Elaine Mishkind of Amherst said the combat boots, arrayed in 31 rows of 29
> boots each, resembled a graveyard. ''It puts a human face on the war,''
she
> said.
>
> The exhibit is scheduled to be at the Easthampton Library Thursday from 8
> a.m. to 7 p.m. and at St. Mary's Church in Northampton Monday from noon to
> 8:30 p.m.
>
> A Belchertown couple whose son committed suicide six weeks ago, about a
year
> after returning from Iraq, addressed about 200 people on the Amherst
common
> Tuesday night. They added his boots to the display.
>
> ''The horrific evils of war ate away at his humanity,'' said Kevin Lucey.
He
> called his son Jeffrey ''an uncounted casualty of the war'' and said there
> are many like him.
>
> ''He extended his hand for help, but he didn't reach soon enough or far
> enough,'' he said. ''These boots may represent a number or a statistic,
but
> to us they represent souls, smiles, laughter, tears, hopes and dreams of
> lives ended far too soon, of lives unfulfilled.''
>
> Joyce Lucey said the boots show the emotional cost of war. She said many
> soldiers come home with demons that society must confront.
>
> Her son was not prepared for the horrors of war, she said. ''His humanity
> was in conflict with what he had to do,'' she said.
>
> His sisters, Kelly and Debbie, read from their brother's letters from
Iraq.
> A hat Jeffrey Lucey wore there was affixed to a display of photographs
> showing him at different stages of his life, including his time in Iraq.
>
> Karen Hurd of Florence, the mother of a soldier who returned from Iraq in
> February, read a letter he wrote shortly after his captain was killed.
''As
> we look at war, we must remember that there are no winners,'' she said.
>
> Al Miller of Leverett, a Vietnam veteran, said all people who die in war
> send out vibrations to those who knew them.
>
> ''I'm afraid to tell you what the cost of war is and that it never goes
away
> and we can't seem to change the direction,'' he said.
>
> Nick Grabbe can be reached at ngrabbe at gazettenet.com.
> Copyright Daily Hamshire Gazette
>
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