Dennis Nelson (NELSOND@ny-smtp.army.mil)
Thu, 07 Oct 1999 11:01:07 -0400
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 11:01:07 -0400 From: Dennis Nelson <NELSOND@ny-smtp.army.mil> Subject: Re: "Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill" -Reply
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The subject implies someone else is doing it, someone else has to do
something.
What media devices do we have in our buildings and vehicles?
To what channels (articles) are they tuned?
What do our children see us reading, listening to, discussing?
In what activities do we spend our time with our children?
Are our children just our biological children or all of the children at large?
When do children become something other than children?
How do we respond to unfairness, injustice, violance, disrepect,
isolation, loneliness, loss of self-esteem, frustration?
Which adverstisers products do we support?
When's the last time we pinned down candidates personally on specific
issues?
And so on and so on.
Someone else is not teaching us to kill. We have abdicated the teaching
for so long we no longer believe the teaching is encompassed in every
word, deed, body expression every day of our lives, by what we let in
and what we let out.
We need to accept forgiveness for having misstepped, commit to getting
back in step, accept the long, hard road ahead, and have faith we will
succeed.
Then we will stop teaching our kids to kill.
Dennis
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