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...believe we felt this truth when we gathered in vigil at Memorial Church on Tuesday. We felt this truth every time we saw an American flag flying at half-mast. We felt this truth when our Congressional leaders suddenly forgot their party rivalries and, standing together at the Capitol, sang “God Bless America” in unison. And feel it we must, for it is this truth that the terrorists who blew apart the Manhattan skyline and gouged a scar in the Pentagon seek to destroy. They did not attack mere buildings. They did not attack individual...
...thought was that we needed to go ahead with the vigil and we wanted to do it in a way that permitted as many people as possible to attend,” Gerson said of the mid-afternoon decision to move the peace rally to Harvard Square...
Joseph Gerson, of the peace-promoting American Friends Service Committee, began organizing the vigil on Tuesday by contacting members of a variety of local peace groups, including the Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights (BCPR) and the Cambridge Peace Commission...
...desperately worried about the safety of people in Palestine, and there’s great concern about the safety of Arabs in this county,” said Hilda B. Silverman ’60. Silverman, who helped organize the vigil, represents Jewish Women for Justice in Israel and Palestine...
Originally slated to take place in Copley Square, the vigil was moved to Harvard Square after a midday bomb scare and FBI raid caused the original location’s safety to be called into question...