<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span></span><br></div><div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="yiv810646194"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><span></span></div><div><br></div>  <div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:garamond, times, serif;"> <div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times, serif;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br>  <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Pat Scanlon <patscanlonmusic@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> VF
 <Smedleyvfp@yahoogroups.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, May 23, 2012 7:47 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Memorial Day for Peace - Invite and Program - Please Circulate<br> </font> </div> <br>
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<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:36.0pt;">Memorial Day for Peace</span></b></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:22.0pt;">May 28, 2012, 1:00 – 3:00 pm</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:22.0pt;">Christopher Columbus Park</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:22.0pt;">105 Atlantic Ave.</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:22.0pt;">Boston, Massachusetts</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:28.0pt;">Please join us</span></b></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;">Please join Veterans For Peace, Smedley Butler
Brigade, Chapter 9 and Samantha Smith, Chapter 45, Military Families Speak Out,
Mass Peace Action and United for Justice with Peace as we commemorate Memorial
Day on Monday May 28, 2012</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;">There will be no parade, no marching band, no military
equipment, no guns and drums, no Air Force fly-overs.</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;">There will be veterans and supporters who have lost
friends and loved ones. Veterans who know the horrors of war and the pain and
anguish of loss. There will be friends and families of soldiers, remembering
their loved ones. There will be Iraqi Refugees who have suffered terrible
losses and will join with us as we remember and show respect for their loss.</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;">There will be flowers dropped into the harbor for each
fallen U.S. soldier from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Flowers will also be also
be dropped into the harbor remembering the loss of Iraqi family and friends.</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;">PLEASE SEE ATTACHED PROGRAM</span></b></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;">  </span></b></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:28.0pt;">Memorial Day for Peace</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;">May 28, 2012     
 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;">Christopher Columbus Park, 105 Atlantic Ave., Boston,
Massachusetts</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:28.0pt;">Program</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal">Brian Quirk                                                                            Scottish
Bag Pipes</div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Merrimack Valley People for
Peace</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal">Rev. Lara Hoke                                                                       Opening</div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Sec. VFP, Smedley D. Butler
Brigade</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal">Pat Scanlon                                                                            Welcome</div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Coordinator, VFP, Smedley D. Butler
Brigade</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal">Lee VanderLann                                                                    In memory of our friend</div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Ex Comm. VFP, Smedley D.
Butler  Brigade                                                                        </span>Capt, Paul Brailsford<span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">VFP Samantha Smith Chapter</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;">                  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal">Bradford Adams                                                                    A short rememberance of </div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">VFP, Smedley D. Butler
Brigade                                                                             </span>my
friend Zalmai</div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Afghanistan Veteran
(2002-2003)</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal">Kevin Lucey                                                                           Return
to Hell                                    </div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Parent of Cpl. Jeffrey Lucey
USMC</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal">Si Kahn                                                                                   Song – Hunter –(Music from CD)</div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal">Bob Funke                                                                              What Memorial Day Means to Me</div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Smedley D. Butler Brigade</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal">Bonnie Gorman                                                                     Suicide:
The hidden wounds of war</div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Military Families Speak Out, </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Gold Star Families Vietnam</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">VFP Smedley D. Butler Brigade</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal">Nancy Wrenn                                                                                    Are
we finished with war yet?</div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Mass Peace Action</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal">Webb Nichols                                                                                    Poet</div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Smedley D. Butler Brigade</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal">Ahmad & Leyla AlZubaydi                                                    Babylon
Restaurant, Lowell</div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Iraqi Refugees</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal">Farouq Ali                                                                              Arab
Spring and Hypocrisy of the West</div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Iraqi Refugee</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal">Brian Quirk                                                                            Scottish Bag Pipes</div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size:7.0pt;"></span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal">Flower Ceremony</div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal">Rev. Ralph Galen                                                                   Closing</div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Community Church of Lawrence</span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;">  </span></div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal">Jesse Perrier                                                                          Taps</div> 

<div class="yiv810646194MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Ex. Comm. Smedley D. Butler
Brigade</span></div> 

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