October 15 Disabilities Awareness Item

Dear Friends,

Today’s quandary: how does a peace loving Quaker or a proud member of Cranky Pacifists Opposed to Mayhem Everywhere or someone who has vigorously objected to our nation’s multiple recent military engagements write a sensitive respectful Disabilities Awareness item? I did not want to be creating thousands and thousands of new wounded warriors in the first place. Now I feel obliged and annoyed to need to address all the wounded veterans and their families now being asked to cope with the long-term consequences of our nation’s current war-fighting and combat medicine practices, obstructionist bureaucracies, … ! How?

I do not know. It’s a serious question I would love to delegate. I am seasoning whether I specifically am called to work harder at the task of saying something meaningful about the topic, especially about adding a whole new category of people really badly needing services at a time when our nation’s finances are groaning. Capacity to deliver services is already faltering because funding for services is already under attack (military metaphor intended) at every turn and there are plenty of opportunities to rant and rant and rant.

In the meantime, here is the best I could do:
http://rantwomanrsof.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-nobel-peace-prize.html
In the Light

(RantWoman)