420 U.S. flags providing the perfect back-drop for the Traveling Tunnel to Towers exhibit honoring the New York City Firefighters & First Responders
If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate.”
— Sandy Dahl, wife of Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl
WEST VALLEY CITY, UTAH, UNITED STATES, May 23, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In the tradition of its eighteen-year legacy of remembering and honoring the victims of 9.11 the Utah Healing Field®, provided by the Colonial Flag Foundation proudly posts 420 United States flags providing the perfect back-drop for the Traveling Tunnel to Towers exhibit honoring the New York City Firefighters and First Responders parked on display at West Valley Centennial Park. Both foundations trace their origin to honoring the innocent victims of terrorism and heroes who died working to save them, September 11, 2001.
Posted in solemn uniform rows and columns at the West Valley City Healing Field® display stands one flag for one heroic life lost running into burning buildings to rescue World Trade Center workers and visitors. Each flag has a name and tells a story of unconditional valor, that each will always be remembered and that their sacrifice not be in vain.
This is the essence of meaning for the Utah Healing Field® flag display which will post more than 3,000 flags on the Sandy City Promenade this coming September.
The impact and meaning of the Utah Healing Field® has grown and spread from coast to coast and beyond. Developed as the Programs of the Colonial Flag Foundation, Healing Field® and Field of Honor® flag displays are now posted in hundreds of communities all through out the year for various causes while honoring other heroes in uniform that are in service to protect us all.
This Memorial Day weekend in 28 cities across America nearly 18,000 United States flags will fly on one of 28 other Healing Field® and Field of Honor® flag displays honoring fallen military service men and women. Each flag carries a name and a story provided by a family member or loved one. All united on a grassy field with fellow comrades, awaiting visitors that wish to walk among them and find a place of honor, remembrance and gratitude.
This weekend is the perfect opportunity to honor and remember all those that wear a uniform in service and sacrifice for us all.
Visit the Healing Field® flag display along with the Tunnel to Towers exhibit at the West Valley City Centennial Park.
Located at= 5415 W 3100 S, West Valley City, UT 84120
From May 23rd thru May 29th, 2019
For more information about the Colonial Flag Foundation and it’s nation wide flag displays visit https://www.healingfield.org/
To learn how your organization can host an Healing Field or Field of Honor Flag Display visit https://www.healingfield.org/our-programs/#howitworks
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5 Reasons to Join Us at Our 5K This Saturday!
1. IT'S A PARTY
Our start line is really just an excuse to throw a party with 5,000 of you closest friends! The Utah Jazz Dancers will lead the runners in a pre-race warm up and local radio station 100.3 FM will provide the tunes.
2. SNACKS & SWAG
Our sponsors have teamed up to provide purple race shirts, cinch sacks, granola bars, and amazing coupons from Old Spaghetti Factory, Zao Asian Cafe, Chick-Fil-A, Maverik, and more! You can cure your pre and post race hunger with free snacks provided by Lucky Low Prices and Nicholas Foods.
3. HAPPY HAIR
Our favorite local hair salon Lunatic Fringe will set a up a massive Happy Hair tent, with more than 50 volunteer stylists to spruce up your do! Add glitter, ribbons, colored hair spray or choose from a variety of stylish hair clips.
4. CLIMBING WALL & PHOTO BOOTH
Our presenting sponsor Maverik will be there with their out-of-this-world climbing wall and our community partners from the DC Wonder Woman Race will have a photo booth to capture all of your favorite 5K moments, with Wonder Woman herself!
Don't forget to check out the other fun activities! From hula hooping with Girl Scouts to learning more about health services at the University of Utah Wellness Bus, we have it all! Other booths include Utah Falconz, Ultimate Disc Association, Kid Adventures, Ziing, Crew Utah, Shred415, UESP, Utah EMT/American Heart Association, and Salt Lake Housing and Community Development.
5. BE A PART OF SOMETHING GREAT
From the moment you arrive on the morning of the race, you'll know it's going to be a great day! Over 1,500 Utah girls along with nearly 500 volunteer coaches have been training all season for this day. Run, walk, skip or hop alongside a girl as a Running Buddy or stop by our Cheer Gear station to pick up some swag and cheer them on from the sidelines.
The finish line is the place where the girls learn first-hand that they can accomplish their goals! It's an "ah-ha" moment you have to see to believe. All the "good feels" you'll leave with are provided free of charge!
JOIN US AT OUR 5K CELEBRATION!
Saturday, June 1
Registration & Festivities 7 a.m. • Race 9 a.m.
Sugar House Park • Big Field Pavilion
1330 East 2100 South, Salt Lake City
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How About a Peace Race Instead of an Arms Race?
By Lawrence Wittner
995 words
In late April, the highly-respected Stockholm International Peace Research Institute reported that, in 2018, world military expenditures rose to a record $1.82 trillion. The biggest military spender by far was the United States, which increased its military budget by nearly 5 percent to $649 billion (36 percent of the global total). But most other nations also joined the race for bigger and better ways to destroy one another through war.
This situation represents a double tragedy. First, in a world bristling with weapons of vast destructive power, it threatens the annihilation of the human race. Second, as vast resources are poured into war and preparations for it, a host of other problems―poverty, environmental catastrophe, access to education and healthcare, and more―fail to be adequately addressed.
But these circumstances can be changed, as shown by past efforts to challenge runaway militarism.
During the late 1950s, the spiraling nuclear arms race, poverty in economically underdeveloped nations, and underfunded public services in the United States inspired considerable thought among socially-conscious Americans. Seymour Melman, a professor of industrial engineering at Columbia University and a peace activist, responded by writing The Peace Race, a mass market paperback published in 1961. The book argued that military spending was undermining the U.S. economy and other key aspects of American life, and that it should be replaced by a combination of economic aid abroad and increased public spending at home.
Melman’s popular book, and particularly its rhetoric about a “peace race,” quickly came to the attention of the new U.S. President, John F. Kennedy. On September 25, 1961, dismayedby the Soviet Union’s recent revival of nuclear weapons testing, Kennedy used the occasion of his address to the United Nations to challenge the Russians “not to an arms race, but to a peace race.” Warning that “mankind must put an end to war―or war will put an end to mankind,” he invited nations to “join in dismantling the national capacity to wage war.”
Kennedy’s “peace race” speech praised obliquely, but powerfully, what was the most ambitious plan for disarmament of the Cold War era: the McCloy-Zorin Accords. This historic US-USSR agreement, presented to the UN only five days before, outlined a detailed plan for “general and complete disarmament.” It provided for the abolition of national armed forces, the elimination of weapons stockpiles, and the discontinuance of military expenditures in a sequence of stages, each verified by an international disarmament organization before the next stage began. During this process, disarmament progress would “be accompanied by measures to strengthen institutions for maintaining peace and the settlement of international disputes by peaceful means.” In December 1961, the McCloy-Zorin Accords were adopted unanimously by the UN General Assembly.
Although the accelerating nuclear arms race―symbolized by Soviet and American nuclear testing―slowed the momentum toward disarmament provided by the McCloy-Zorin Accords and Kennedy’s “peace race” address, disarmament continued as a very live issue. The National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE), America’s largest peace organization, publicly lauded Kennedy’s “peace race” speech and called for “the launching of a Peace Race” in which the two Cold War blocs joined “to end the arms race, contain their power within constructive bounds, and encourage peaceful social change.”
For its part, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, created by the Kennedy administration to address disarmament issues, drafted an official U.S. government proposal, Blueprint for the Peace Race, which Kennedy submitted to the United Nations on April 18, 1962. Leading off with Kennedy’s challenge “not to an arms race, but to a peace race,” the proposal called for general and complete disarmament and proposed moving in verifiable steps toward that goal.
Nothing as sweeping as this followed, at least in part because much of the subsequent public attention and government energy went into curbing the nuclear arms race. A central concernalong these lines was nuclear weapons testing, an issue dealt with in 1963 by the Partial Test Ban Treaty, signed that August by the U.S., Soviet, and British governments. In setting the stage for this treaty, Kennedy drew upon Norman Cousins, the co-chair of SANE, to serve as his intermediary with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Progress in containing the nuclear arms race continued with subsequent great power agreements, particularly the signing of the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of 1968.
As is often the case, modest reform measures undermine the drive for more thoroughgoing alternatives. Certainly, this was true with respect to general and complete disarmament. Peace activists, of course, continued to champion stronger measures. Thus, Martin Luther King, Jr. used the occasion of his Nobel Peace Prize lecturein Oslo, on December 11, 1964, to declare: “We must shift the arms race into a ‘peace race.’” But, with important curbs on the nuclear arms race in place, much of the public and most government leaders turned to other issues.
Today, of course, we face not only an increasingly militarized world, but even a resumption of the nuclear arms race, as nuclear powers brazenly scrap nuclear arms control and disarmament treaties and threaten one another, as well as non-nuclear nations, with nuclear war.
Perhaps it’s time to revive the demand for more thoroughgoing global disarmament. Why not wage a peace race instead of an arms race―one bringing an end to the immense dangers and vast waste of resources caused by massive preparations for war? In the initial stage of this race, how about an immediate cut of 10 percent in every nation’s military budget, thus retaining the current military balance while freeing up $182 billion for the things that make life worth living? As the past agreements of the U.S. and Soviet governments show us, it’s not at all hard to draw up a reasonable, acceptable plan providing for verification and enforcement.
All that’s lacking, it seems, is the will to act.
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Dr. Lawrence Wittner, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is Professor of History emeritus at SUNY/Albany and the author of Confronting the Bomb(Stanford University Press).
Good Saturday Morning.
Monday is Memorial Day, a day set aside to honor, thank, and remember those that died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. We owe an unpayable debt to the men and women who gave their lives in the preservation of liberty and freedom.
This Memorial Day weekend, we encourage you to take time to do some of the most effective activism outreach you can do—in your own homes and with your own families. It is alarming that 4 out of 10 Americans now support socialism. Many in the rising generation do not have a firm foundation in constitutional principles.
Memorial Day provides an easy opportunity to teach and share about what makes The United States of America uniquely special in the history of countries and governments. Please seize these opportunities.
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We hope you have a safe holiday weekend and are able to enjoy the blessings of friendship and family. Please keep reading for a rundown of what happened in Congress this week.
Tim, Jess, and the Heritage Action Team
A Background Deal to Drive Up Debt
In 2011, many Republicans fought and won for the Budget Control Act (BCA) to be passed it into law, creating spending limits that future Congresses would have to follow.
But the current Congress doesn’t want their spending capped, and this week, Republican and Democrat leaders in the House and Senate met in secret to try and make a backroom deal to increase the spending limits. Thankfully, those negotiations fell apart and no deal has been reached.
Any backroom spending deal is bound to be bad for Americans. We deserve an open and transparent process where we can hold our elected representatives accountable.
Congress has such a process, but House Democrats abandoned it this year when they decided to give up on all appearances of fiscal responsibility and not even pass a budget.
From a conservative standpoint, we are fighting for a budget that follows the total spending cap established by the BCA and would lower non-defense discretionary spending as an offset to much-needed increases in defense spending. We want to see non-defense and defense spending decoupled so money for the military is no longer held hostage, like Democrats have done in the past.
> > > Click HERE to learn more about the budget process and the Budget Control Act.
News From Washington
Sentinels Taking Action
On Wednesday Sentinels in Tennessee took part in the 4th annual Sentinel Shoot at Sentinel Greg Johnson’s home. Staffers from Reps. Scott DesJarlais, Mark Green, and Sen. Marsha Blackburn joined nearly 40 Sentinels for a trip to the range. Grassroots Director Janae Stracke was able to stop by too! This event sparked fellowship, community building, networking opportunities, and most importantly relationship building.
