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Save Your Prayers

From: Erin
To: contributions@michaelmoore.com
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:20 AM
Subject: save your prayers

Hi Michael,

As a wife of a Kansas National Guard Member who was sent to Iraq less than one month ago, I am incensed by the well meaning comment from family and friends, "I'll pray for you". So today, I decided to put a stop to the notion that praying for someone's family somehow excuses that individual from taking real action to end the war and bring fathers back to their sons, husbands back to their wives and sons back to their mothers. When someone tells me they will pray for me, I tell them to respectfully save their prayers and use their energy to demand their representatives end this war and bring our women and men home before they incur any more casualties or injuries to civilians and soldiers alike.

In addition, I will vocalize my feelings about this war and encourage others to do the same. Yes, we can support the troops without supporting the war. My husband, a pacifist, went to war involuntarily and as a medic is there to support his men and make sure they get home safely.

I will not be praying for my husband this Christmas. I will be active in anti-war organizations in the hopes of bringing him home before he misses yet another Christmas with his wife and son.