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 ironic that peace often brings strife. In November November: see month.  2002, Dana Schmucker wrote to the editor of The Goshen [Indiana Indiana, state, United States
Indiana, midwestern state in the N central United States. It is bordered by Lake Michigan and the state of Michigan (N), Ohio (E), Kentucky, across the Ohio R. (S), and Illinois (W).
] News to say that she was sick and tired of the "local pacifist rhetoric" and the lack of support she felt for her son, who is a U.S. soldier serving in Afghanistan. A day later, Schmucker received a call from local pacifist and Goshen College Goshen College, (also known as Goshen or GC) is a private Mennonite liberal arts college in Goshen, Indiana with an enrollment of around 1,000 students. The college is accredited by North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and is a member of the Council for  peace and conflict studies professor Carolyn Schrock-shenk asking if the two women could meet. Over coffee they learned that both are mothers of sons; both share religious connections; both want peace. They decided to write another letter to The Goshen News--this time from both of them. "I will respect and understand in a new way, those who want to prevent this war," said Schmucker. "I would ask them to remember our sons and daughters who are trying to do the right thing and who are risking their lives to do so."
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Title Annotation:mothers remember sons and daughters risking their lives
Author:Bowman, Kate
Publication:Sojourners
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U3IN
Date:May 1, 2003
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