{"id":29356,"date":"2018-01-03T13:42:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T18:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29356"},"modified":"2018-01-03T13:42:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T18:42:51","slug":"giving-war-too-many-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29356","title":{"rendered":"Giving War Too Many Chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/01\/03\/giving-war-too-many-chances\/\">Giving War Too Many Chances<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>As the new year begins, it is important for the U.S. to acknowledge its troubling history of global war-making, especially \u00a0over the past two-decades, as Nicolas J.S. Davies delineates. <span id=\"more-25364\"><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I met John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Christmas Eve in 1969. \u00a0I joined them and a small group of local peace activists in a Christmas fast for world peace in front of Rochester Cathedral in England, a short walk from where I lived with my family in Chatham Dockyard. \u00a0I was 15 years old, and my father was the dockyard medical officer, responsible for the health and safety of the dockyard workers who maintained the U.K.\u2019s new fleet of nuclear submarines.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21840\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/0434_09_ships_at_sea-4O_CRP-16-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21840\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/0434_09_ships_at_sea-4O_CRP-16-9-300x169.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/0434_09_ships_at_sea-4O_CRP-16-9-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/0434_09_ships_at_sea-4O_CRP-16-9-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/0434_09_ships_at_sea-4O_CRP-16-9-1028x578.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/0434_09_ships_at_sea-4O_CRP-16-9-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/0434_09_ships_at_sea-4O_CRP-16-9.jpg 1280w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Warships of the U.S. Navy. (Photo credit: U.S. Navy)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>John and Yoko arrived before midnight mass. \u00a0We were all introduced and went in for the service. \u00a0By the time we came out, thousands of people had heard John was there. \u00a0He was still a Beatle and he was mobbed by a huge crowd, so he and Yoko decided they couldn\u2019t stay with us as planned. \u00a0While most of our little group helped John back to their iconic white Rolls Royce, I and another boy not much older than me were left to shepherd a panicking Yoko back through the crowd to the car. \u00a0They both made it, and we never saw them again. \u00a0The next morning a florist came by with a huge box of white carnations, and we spent the rest of our Christmas and Boxing Day handing flowers to passers-by and getting to know each other \u2013 the birth of what became the Medway and Maidstone Peace Action Group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giving War Too Many Chances As the new year begins, it is important for the U.S. to acknowledge its troubling history of global war-making, especially \u00a0over the past two-decades, as Nicolas J.S. 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