by Steve Osborn

My daughter sent me a DVD and a VCR of the short film Seniors for Peace. This is a group of Seniors, primarily from the Redwoods Retirement Home in Mill Valley California who have demonstrated weekly (They meet Mondays to plan and make posters, etc., then demonstrate on Fridays, rain or shine.)

They managed with the cooperation of students and faculty to ban recruiters from the HS campus, and to block the giving personal information from the school records to the military recruiting offices.

The film is very well done and inspirational to anyone seeing it. Some of the seniors interviewed were in the Blitz in London, or fought in WW-II, or were refugees from European nations overrun by the Nazis.

My plan is to show it at our senior centers and retirement homes on Camano and in Stanwood and see if it doesn't strike a spark up here. I would recommend getting a copy and seeing what you can do with it. Here is the link to the filmmaker and the film.

This link has reviews of the film and, and the bottom has ordering information, donations, etc., and also a link to Seniors for Peace, which I will include here.

I think it is incumbent upon us "old farts" who have seen war and all its horrors in our lifetime to work for peace. There are other ways to solve disputes than by killing anyone who disagrees with us. We have to urge our government to seek them out and use them.

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