In Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl says this: "...everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." (We'll forgive him for that generic man.)
When the attacks came on September 11, 2001, we could have taken a different way if the government had had the wisdom of the millions of people demonstrating all over the world--proving that we had learned something from crimes against humanity--theirs and ours.
As we commemorate the tenth anniversary of the attacks, let's acknowledge the thousands who protested against attacking sovereign nations. These collages that I made over the first few years start with October 2002 and continue into January 2003, when people demonstrated again, and in February when the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers--celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps this year--signed a statement printed in the New York Times, and March 2003, when there was a reading of Lysistrata at City College of San Francisco. Nothing stopped the War Machine, but at least people spoke out against it.
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