The spirit of a fallen soldier named Jesus

[SmileMaker]

At the largest protest since the war in Iraq began, I was blessed to meet the spirit of a fallen soldier named Jesus . He appeared in the form of a grieving father, Fernando Suarez del Solar. He beamed with an angelic aura of sad, loving kindness when he stopped by a counter-recruitment tent to greet the director of a film that is in production called "Before You Enlist" (beforeyouenlist.org)

Like my friend, Sue Niederer, Fernando Suarez del Solar carries the soldier spirit of his son in his work for peace. Along with Cindy Sheehan and many other Gold Star Family members, he is finishing the mission that his son intended to carry out before being lied into an early grave; to protect America from enemies - foreign and domestic.

The peace movement supports our troops and wants to keep America secure. We are outraged that more young people, like Jesus, Casey and Seth will die and suffer at the hands of a dishonorable administration that uses the language of God to hide the real, anti-life agenda that their actions demonstrate.

It is in the blessed spirit demonstrated by members of the Gold Star Families for Peace that I find the example of Jesus Christ and feel the presence of my God.

[Lupus]

1. Jesus

Kinda weird that the poor kid's name was Jesus. Anyway, the real enemies of the state are indeed the ones running the state itself. Jesus was not only a philosopher, and some say a prophet, but he was also a revolutionary. He was not a king, he despised kings, and he would despise the bastards in Washington and elsewhere who use his name to encourage compliance. I believe there's a prophecy about him returning, no? Well, the man himself has been dead for a long time. But his spirit lives on in the hearts and minds of people around the world today. The American people are faced with a few options. One: to sit around and wait for a dead man to resurrect himself, or Two: To rise up and continue his legacy and make things better for ourselves. I am not trying to insult anyone's beliefs. I am, however, encouraging them in the true sense they were founded.

[SmileMaker]

2. Welcome Lupus

I was accused by a supporter of Dobon of not believing in God. This person is in deep denial but i think that whenever she finally does realize how conned she's been she will be the worst kind of opponent that Bush has ever seen.

I've been trying to find the right words to describe how God is being used by the cons and how I observe the example of Jesus and experience the spirit of God in the actiions of peacemakers.

[newyawker99]

4. Hi Lupus!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Voltaire99]

3. Bravo, nice post

A pity that Fernando Suarez del Solar has lost his son--never should it have happened. Let us all work now to spare the many other fathers and mothers, American and Iraqi, his painful loss. As the poet Robert Lowell warned in his 1965 poem "Waking Early Sunday Morning" (the very year that he refused an invitation to be a puppet at Lyndon Johnson's White House poetry event), such losses go on and on:

Pity the planet, all joy gone
from this sweet volcanic cone;
peace to our children when they fall
in small war on the heels of small
war--until the end of time
to police the earth, a ghost
orbiting forever lost
in our monotonous sublime.

Thank you for your part, SmileMaker; we need more like you.