AFTER THE WAR
By Howard Zinn

Link to an excellent essay on the Common Dreams NewsCenter site.
Originally published in The Progressive.

View snapshots of a recent peace rally at 16th and Broadway in Sacramento.
Cindy Sheehan was one of hundreds of people who made their voices heard.

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THIS IS MY SONG

This is my song, O God of all the nations,
A song of peace for lands afar and mine.
This is my home, the country where my heart is;
Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine;
But other hearts in other lands are beating
With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.

My country's skies are bluer than the ocean,
And sunlight beams on clover-leaf and pine.
But other lands have sunlight too and clover,
And skies are everywhere as blue as mine.
Oh, hear my song, O God of all the nations,
A song of peace for their land and for mine.

My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountainside,
A song of peace.

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Music: "Finlandia" by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Words by Lloyd Stone (1912- )

Recorded by John Girton at Nugget Studios, Grass Valley, California.

The Methodist hymnal states:
Copyright 1934, renewed 1962 by Lorenz Publishing Company.
Used by permission; melody used by permission of Breitkopf & Hartel, Wiesbaden.
All rights reserved.