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Friday, April 18, 2003

True tale from the street: Last evening, five of us from the Ann Arbor Area Committee for Peace went door-to-door on Pauline Ave. with petitions and yard signs, hoping to increase the already impressive display of "No War" and "Peace" signs in Ann Arbor. I was working with Cynthia, one of our hardest-working activists. At one house, she talked with a 90-year-old woman, who was obviously frail and having difficulty speaking. The woman said she was opposed to the wars and thought Bush was a terrible president, but was afraid to put a sign in her yard. The line that choked Cynthia up was when the woman said "I hope I live to see another president."

Amen to that.

Along the same lines, Mary from Fort Worth writes:
My aunt, who is 89 has seen a lot including isolationism, war hoo-ha, and the red scare. She says that the attitude of the general populace now is the worst she has ever seen.