The philosopher Bertrand Russell said perhaps wars would end when we honored the people who refused to kill one another as well as the people who did. I can’t imagine the bravery and suffering of men and women who die in wars and combat, but it is true that voices for peace are weak and marginalized, you do not ever see them on their news or debating on their cable channels or speaking at podiums on national debates.

Pacifism is very much out of fashion, people compete on television to be more bloodthirsty and unforgiving and angry than the other, and are rewarded and applauded for it. People who seek a different way of resolving conflicts are pushed to the edges of public life, dismissed and ridiculed and ignored.

On my  blog, on this Memorial Day, I pray for peace, and hope that these other voices rise up and are heard.