Keep Hope Alive

In July 1969, a full-page advertisement in the Sunday NY Times posed a request to the American public:

Hold onto this page for 1 year and hope and pray it’s ended.

The hopeful ad appeared one year after the assassination of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, and 6 years after the shooting of President John Kennedy.

The copy reads:

The trouble is hoping and praying isn’t enough. Violence won’t end unless you’re willing to start the ending.

I have held onto to this yellowing page for 47 years; the hope for the end of gun violence nearly extinguished.

In the wake of Orlando, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, the Senate still can’t take small steps to curb gun violence.

“My prayers are with you” congressmen numbingly utter, but in the same breath they greedily whisper “my votes are with the NRA.” Our congressional leaders need to get up off their knees and do something about gun control.

Offering prayers but failing to act, make their prayers ring hollow.

When are we going to start the ending?

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Pierre Lagacé

June 21, 2016 at 12:22 pm


So so sad Sally.

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- sallyedelstein
  
  June 21, 2016 at 1:07 pm
  
  
  The shootings just accelerate, while any meaningful action is at a stand still. Sad indeed.
  
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Christy

June 21, 2016 at 3:10 pm


Reblogged this on The Misty Miss Christy.

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ReevePhotos

June 21, 2016 at 9:35 pm


“Our congressional leaders need to get up off their knees…” – how very true… 😉

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mattsandercock

June 21, 2016 at 11:27 pm


Hear, hear Sally. The fact that there is no consensus even on banning weapons that mow down countless people in seconds defies belief. The NRA must be truly happy with all of the politicians they own…and it seems they’ve bought a LOT of them.

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