"End of War" by Eric Colville
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The song and video above, by Eric Colville, "imagines war in the past tense, after humanity realizes the folly of it all." Eric writes, "The idea for this song came about after reading
Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax to my son and wishing the story offered a more hopeful lesson than the “if only” written on the rock at the end. Around the same time, I was watching Ken Burns and
Lynn Novick’s PBS documentary, “The War.” The film’s personal narratives moved me deeply and left me astonished at the senseless destruction of so many lives. I imagined how wonderful it
would be if I could respond to my son’s questions about war by explaining that it was a terrible thing of the past rather than something my own country was waging in a
growing number of places. With all this fresh in my consciousness, I somehow arrived at three chords that were hopeful and uplifting, and I found myself singing “the end of war” as I played them."
Please everyone, do all you can to make the words of this song become reality.
Iraq: more than 650,000 civilians
and over 4,743 Coalition soldiers - dead from war. Afghanistan:
over 2,151 Coalition soldiers dead, with the civilian death count unknown.Darfur: over 400,000 people, dead. Israel and Palestine: over 6,200 people since 2000.
The Congo: 3,000,000 since 1998. Mumbai.Chechnya. New York. Sri Lanka. Lebanon.Madrid. The list goes on.
Our Sons and Daughters. Husbands and Wives. Sisters and Brothers. Parents and Friends. It's enough already.All you "leaders" out there, listen. We - the people - want peace, please. NOW!
The visual above shows photos of people of peace, or visual
expressions of peace which they created. These photos provide just a small capsule of the tens of millions
of people around the world raising their voices and being visible and vocal for peace. Please join in!
