Move-On.org end-the-war vigil tonight
Move-On.org's Harrisburg chapter will hold a candelight vigil beginning at 7 p.m. tonight in the plaza in front of Harrisburg City Hall to mark the fifth anniversary of the start of the disastrous Iraq War.
My main memory of that time is preparing to travel to Germany with my older daughter to attend the wedding celebration of my cousin Meike in Freiburg. My parents had been concerned about our traveling outside of the United States at a time like this, but I didn't think there would be a risk worth worrying about, and there wasn't.
.We were the only Americans at the event, but people, including those who didn't know us from Adam, couldn't have been nicer. Many "warum?" questions about the war and George W.. Bush, who then and now mystifies and angers the Germans. And we enjoyed our walks through the beautiful Black Forest as spring dawned in a country that knew the cost of blindly following leaders into war all too well.