To the editor:
Lent is a time to repent, to reconsider, to turn away from and to begin again. Lent also needs to be a time to speak out against the building of warships, such as the “weapons of mass destruction” built at Bath Iron Works.
We will vigil every Saturday during Lent (through April 7), holding banners and signs asking for an end to the continued building of warships, across from the Bath Iron Works administrative building on Washington Street.
We stand together to witness to our absolute need to stop war and our preparations for war. We stand together in hope of the conversion from a spiritually dead war economy to a world without war, without weapons, without a military industrial complex.
We stand with the innocent, the voiceless, those grieving at the hands of this technological society that is destroying our beautiful Mother Earth.
We stand together and pray for the victims of militarism in all its forms.
The path of healing justice cries out for disarmament now.
George Ostensen
Maureen Kehoe Ostensen,
Hope
letters@timesrecord.com
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