{"id":5242,"date":"2017-05-29T08:24:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=5242"},"modified":"2017-05-29T08:24:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:24:33","slug":"memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=5242","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today this country remembers its dead in war. \u00a0If we consider the fight against religious bigotry, xenophobia, anti-semitism, racism and white supremacy a form of war then we have to mourn our most recent local victims as soldiers as well. It is still difficult to wrap my mind around the fact that I live in a city where, this weekend, in the middle of the afternoon two men were\u00a0killed and one wounded in a streetcar because they came to the aid of two young Muslima who were attacked by a White supremacist. A war veteran and father of four, a Reed College graduate and a young man who recently won a prize for a poem focussed on Islamophobia all came\u00a0to the aid of strangers only to have their throats slashed.<\/p>\n

\"\"The climate of violence is created, intensified and sanctioned from above – the link below from today’s NYT editorial shows the extent to which whole swaths of people have “left morality behind as a viable concept.”<\/p>\n

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