Thoughts on the Peace Testimony
Submitted by NYYM-WebAdminis... on Mon, 11/06/2023 - 5:05pmThoughts on the Peace Testimony
by Cary Andrews
Scarsdale Meeting
I was first inspired to pacifism when my father’s laboratory was bombed by student radicals opposed to the Vietnam War. A student was killed. Another student was seriously injured. The records of 25 years of my father’s research were destroyed. Moreover, bombers essentially missed their target — an Army Math Research Center that was situated above my father’s laboratory.
The world is changing and so too must the peace witness. Many Quakers over our history have refused to fight and refused to have their money conscripted for war. But all of that may be changing.