Support The Troops

I can honor Memorial Day in two ways; 

1. Donate to a place that attempts to look after Veterans-- many of the homeless, the sick, the disabled, the unemployed, the mentally distressed--are the vets who went to fight and the families they can no longer look after. They served us but we're not serving them.  I heard of a program called New Directions. They work to give Vets a job, and a home.

2. Lower my use of oil, electricity and other resources, since war is about a grab for resources. In Iraq, for now, it's oil. I can help end the war by not driving a car, keep the lights and electricity use down, don't buy plastic goods (oil is used to create them), recycle...

I think it'd be cool if on Memorial day the entire continent shut off all their lights and went to minimal electricity for...even and hour, and used the car only minimally all morning.  We'd save billions in oil, coal and other resources. We'd decrease green house gases, we'd lesson our dependence on oil and we'd find out what a massive impact we can have, when we take small action. We'd show that there are other ways to manage a lack of resources, besides fighting and grabbing, blowing off mountaintops and

taking resources from others. 

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