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| Casey keeping and eye on the brunch fixings |
What a day today. First of all Vic cooked up a breakfast
spread for a dozen members of our local Veterans For Peace chapter in honor of
Brian Willson, a longtime icon in the peace movement and original member of
Veterans For Peace from its inception in 1985.
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| The building blocks of the fritata |
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| Honey-walnut, roasted vegetables |
It goes without saying that the brunch was memorable,
roasted root vegetables, a veggie frittata, Cuban black beans, and pot after
pot of coffee to accompany round after round of political discourse. Brian and
his partner Becky Luening were center stage on a final stop of his NW Washington book
tour - and Casey didn’t seem to mind this morning distraction a bit.
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| Brian Willson with VFP activist Ellen Murphy |
Later on that last night a crowd of over seventy-five
Bellinghamsters gathered at the Whatcom Peace and Justice Center to hear Brian
speak of his journey from the early days of his epiphany and evolution toward
pacifism after Vietnam, through his 1987 protest outside the Concord,
California Naval Weapons Center where an ammo train with a shipment bound for
Nicaragua was ordered to run over Brian and other anti-war activists on the
tracks, severing his legs; and finally to his current involvements with the Peace,
Occupation, and sustainability movements.
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| L to r - Brian, Gene, Michael Jacobsen, John Chawick, Becky, Vic, and Casey |
Long, long day for our guy, but a lot of ear rubs to make up
for it.
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