Hawks and Doves share candle-light vigil.

I'm to tired to make a full report today and the internet network may be taken down tomorrow before I can post again, so this could be my last post from Camp Casey.

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I just took part in a beautiful ceremony. The conservatives on the other side of the ditch joined us in a memorial vigil for the fallen solders in Iraq. As a peace-offering, they donated a 20-foot pole with two flags on it: The American and a "Fallen Soldiers" flags. (The "Fallen Soldiers" banner has a white background with a rifle planted in the ground and a helmet over the stock.)

We prayed together, lit candles and sang patriotic songs. There wasn't a dry eye in Camp Casey, it was wonderful. At the end of the ceremony, as the flags and pole where returned to the pro-Bush side, we shouted: "Thank you!, We love you!, You are good Americans!"

For the record, it was the conservative side who who volunteered to donate the flags and pole when they heard we were having a memorial vigil. In my opinion, the reason they did this was that they recognized that we love America, and the soldiers, just as much as they do.

If Cindy's protest has started a dialog between us, it was worth the effort.

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A group of veterans has already left for New Orleans to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The word is that the Louisiana National Guard is in Iraq, so the veterans have started mobilizing to take up the slack.

There are still about 300 people here, mostly folks who have been here the longest. Ann Wright made an announcement this afternoon that the packing-up will begin tomorrow with the removal of the crosses at camps one and two on Tuesday morning.

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A woman dropped her car keys in one of the port-o-johns earlier this evening. (Before the ceremony) Jeff the marine got them out for her. She laughed so hard that the entire camp caught a case of the giggles.

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Rebekah has been offered a paid job as the chef for the "Bring Them Home Now" tour. Details still have to be hashed out, but they really love her cooking. Who can blame them? For example, today we had baked salmon w/ lemon & garlic, wild rice w/ shiitake mushrooms, almonds & green onion, lightly sauteed summer squash and french-braised bison . (The bison was a gift from Colorado.)

James invited me to join the bus tour as the official blogger & network apprentice, but I really need to go home. I miss Asheville and I'm getting homesick.

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  By the way, as with all my posts from Camp Casey, this has not been edited for punctuation or spelling. hawk doves dove

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