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Letter: Hope for Peace As We Remember Those Who Have Died For Us
Published on: 12 Nov, 2016
Updated on: 12 Nov, 2016
From Andrew Norman
Rector of St Nicolas’ Guildford
Not to dishonest the memory of service men and women who have given their lives “for us”, but to focus on the urgency of working for peace and for reconciliation in non-violent ways, there will be an act of remembrance in Quaker’s Acre near Guildford public library this Sunday at 10:30am.
May we all – including those gathered elsewhere at war memorials and in churches (like I will be at St Nicolas) – raise our eyes to a vision of peace in this increasingly conflicted and troubled world.
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Jim Allen
November 13, 2016 at 1:02 pm
Being of a none religious persuasion, I think, perhaps the ‘Quaker Way’ would be beneficial to us all instead of the constant extremist chitter-chatter by the Twitterarty on the internet and the political classes.
Working together for the good of the community as a whole, rather than the money lenders and the selected few seems to me to be the way forward.
While I will not attend I will in my own way I support this service.
Mary Bedforth
November 13, 2016 at 8:08 pm
I would suggest that much more than ‘hope’ is needed to change the ways of the warmongers and of those running the military industrial complex.
Very little or nothing is learnt from remembrance ceremonies. Politicians lay their wreaths and bow their heads.
The names of 15,000 British military who have died in wars since WW11 are engraved on columns at the National Arboretum.