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American Friends Service Committee — Part 23
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winco we wore in
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dé Aihe Uhtinit-. #ily Catlins led as da Pot
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from ta Bible abant there belr
athered sroum{ & tlme for everything under
4 Aer erenhone, some of ue Stu, for love. for hate, for war,
or peace. We hod one opyinal
merican with ws, eu Iudicn
ibal Janzuage,
Wo duughed
Judy Collins sang « song ini When che told us bo join in op the
French sné another one about a
garden full of weeds and snow. 3
over heard it before, but it was,
t
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jo : 7 . dicn't sit down,
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(is: My mominy asked mec
where 1 Jeft my jacket. and 1
said, ‘The wind biew it off on the
aiuber alde of the river, My
mo, ‘mommy asked mc what I did
with my goid ring. end J said “1!
. ropped if in the river.” .
Tben ope of our black girls,.
- Allidees Christovher, dressed.
slegeatiy in Afro clothing, led!
; . the group in the black national
. anthem — which I had never
eard before, ‘either. The Rev.
“illic Learrow, a dlack lady
aster and Operation Breakfast
wurker from Cuicaro, said,
RE Re ree rme
ee OEE
“We sbail over ” .
Putter, yercome,” Candy
‘Now iistes, we're going back to! There was laughter, tears, and!
geeond staaza,
The Victnanieso © trauslator
anid that £0 fer no men bad sang
anyibing for wa, 39 our black
; . +Q>amaust from
vA Vicinamese - girl wm a Vincent Durrell,
Kuitarist to accompgny ber xung enacted a pcom whi
2 Vicloaisese love song which composed tT ti hee ad
. the irterpreter sald went ike and there) calle
Bep.”
Nississippi
got up and
ak right then
d “Vietoam —
Afier we bad stood to sing,
aur coordinator, aval,
some pictures of flowers an
things to Madame Binh and}:
Xuan Thuy. Wadame Binh
kissed Candy ard enid, “I do sol:
for all ine Vicfnamese women;
here.” When Xuan Thay alzo}
kissed her,-one of the Vict-
anmese men in the group said,
“Aud he kissca her for al] of the
Vicinamese men here, too.”
Aciericn soon, and if we're | friendly embraces, We closed by
solng back there, we've got to | singing the Vietnamese national),
hbaye come ‘soul’, So things|antucm as we dragon-danced in}:
really Hvezed up as we sang, {& tightly-xnlt pattern of circles].
“Tals litre ght of mince, I'm |eround the room. This type of
goan2 ict it shine,” with various |dnee, with bands on. the
verses to include New York and |Slwulders of the persun in front
other stares and Vietnam.
git was very movirz, and }
Inter wisbed that ¥ hed brougat
giong some Moravlan beeswax
ricely.
Three Vietnamese girls then
aang a spirited and harmonious
song in their own langucge. It
. mad a woaderful rhythm to It. J
wish peonlo in-Amorica could
par such songs and see thease
irls' in thelr prey ao ldai
. . essas. I- don’t think we wduld
udy war. anymore if shat
Urppened. ‘> -
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ghrisimas candles for each of usqoPpropriate ¢lusing to & ko
hold. They would havo [it injjourncy and some very long con.
be)
of you. means ualty, we were
told. Te .
ltaro Evening tt
It was a rere cyening, but
fercnee sessions, After refle
ing upon dt on the way back to
¢ hotel in the metro (subway).
1 kpew that I had heard about
this sorl of thing somewhere} .
before. And then it struck me,
thal, yes, Jesus had said, “Love
your cnemies,". ard, “If you
saute only your brethren, whal)
mere are -you doing than
olers?” - ae
Somchow eversthing that-the
spomors of the cotficrence had
atricd to get us to do or to believe
dida’t come. shout by Herel
pressure. But the Spirit of God)
Toke Ubrouzh that nighf and the:
reality and truth of our huma |
goed will was mado manilest.
just may be 2 slep toward pea |
and reconciliction, .
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