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| My Volunteer Story In the fall of 2002, a friend invited me to a weekly demonstration in Edina, Minnesota, at the international headquarters of an arms and munitions maker. This is the second demonstration I have ever attended. My first being in 1970, after the Kent State students were shot. I was in graduate school. I probably would not have gone to the demonstration but for what I had read about the impact of these munitions on our own troops and countless civilians. After working for 30 years with veterans who struggled with the physical and emotional scarring from what they had lived through in past wars, I do not want to see more vets deal with yet another type of pain. I honestly believe that each small task I complete contributes to an effort that resolves conflicts without using violence. In the long run, I believe this approach will result in a more sane, peaceful world for my kids, my grand kids and generations to come. Tom Sullivan - NP volunteer since 2003 |