Status
Available
Call number
Collections
Publication
Wallingford, Pa. : Pendle Hill Publications, 2005.
Subjects
ISBN
0875743811 / 9780875743813
Local notes
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 381
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Description
"Anne Morrison Welsh tells the moving story of her husband's self-sacrifice [self-immolation] at the Pentagon in November 1965 in a desperate effort to help end a war he abhorred. Quaker Norman Morrison felt led to make this extreme statement in a manner of Vietnamese Buddhist monks. In telling her husband's story, the author also shares her own spiritual journey of forgiveness, acceptance and gradual recovery from life's wounds. A 1999 visit to Viet Nam was healing for Anne Morrison Welsh as she and her daughters met with many Vietnamese who shared with her the extraordinary impact that Norman Morrison's act had on their hearts and minds"--back cover.
User reviews
LibraryThing member kaulsu
Disturbingly, Anne Welsh's pamphlet rather reinforced the US Gov't's allegations that the war protestors strengthened the "enemy." At the same time, it also strengthened the notion that our protest shortened the war. All-in-all, not a comfortable read.
LibraryThing member QuakerReviews
This is the story of her husband's self-sacrifice at the Pentagon to end the Vietnam War, and her own story of healing and forgiveness. She and her daughters visited Vietnam in 1999 as part of their healing.
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Call number
CP 381/2