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fe are here today, not simply on behalf of four'Men, but°on behalf o ~~ life and hope... We are here for life because our collhtry is bringing de- «ws, struction; violence and death to the couhtry of the.Victnamese.*~ Look at ~~the evidence: more and mcre Viethamese are dying--noldiers, women, child ‘ken, the aged.. More and more. suffer -ihjuries,. and man; POF the. ihjured re 4% ceive little or nc medical care. Homes; villages» cities; fields and fcr “wests-are being destroyed. People are driveh frem theif€ homes into’ refuge camps that are often. no better than prisohe.. fhe country's tracitions an: economy and public morality are being shattefedi And’ for all this cestru )eien ané vilence and death the unite States ‘beats a large: measure of re- Sponsibility. We do nat overicok what the North Vietnamese ane the Natic Liberation Front are doihg. But, as Americans, we are morally sresocnsibl for what cur own ccuntry dces, not for what cthers do. And so we canncc Main silent when we are convinces that out nation’s action in Viet is wrong. We must speak out on behalf cf life and acainst death, and so we stand here today with all those other, Americans--people like br. Speck 2n ty's destructive acticn his threecompanions--who are oppesed te our codhts Aowho are opposing that action by non-vinient meas. Vietnam, an Ans we are here on behalf of hope, not édeSpalr. To kiil anceher per- son is an act cf despair, 2 fo kill semeone is to say t there is nc here cf de2 h nia a human way, an’? sc he simriy be eliminated. ir ofcur cwn human rewers and oi the cther persen'’s humanity. te share that attitude of cesrai We have here--herte that human be in non-violent ways, build a ge: uine Auman community, and build it out ef justice and fidelity and leve. we have hone that cenuine Isve, cenuine concern for cthers, is life- ence feath,. a - Father Thomas Rauch, -S.J. Theolagy’ ¢eacher, Regis Coii Rally in support of Dr. Benjamin Speck, William Sloan Coffin, - Michael Ferber, and Mitchell Goodm>n . . - Denver, Colorado | -— tes eT) A, IE Een nema en Le A A a