--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jim, > > I want you to know that I sincerely appreciate your passion for veteran's > affairs and your continued commitment to our country. I also appreciate the > lengths you have gone to try and help Sgt. Craft transition back to life here > in > the states. However, I do take issue with some of your recent comments > directed at me on this list. > > When I privately asked you for Sgt. Craft's email address about two months > ago, I had not yet been introduced to the group IVAW, so any insinuation that > I > was trying to contact him regarding that group is not true. My concern for > Sgt. Craft was then as it is now. From what you described, he was having a > very > difficult time and I wanted to help him if I could. I emailed him to see if > there was anything I could do to help him or his family. He did not respond > and I respected that. > > Given some of the comments that have been made in your emails and > "JerseyJohn's," I think I need to make yet another point of clarification. > While I enjoy > both coaching and playing soccer and while I am currently producing a > documentary film, my primary vocation is as a Catholic educator. That is > what I do > every day. If I am not on a campus somewhere in the country lecturing, I am > in > my office developing content and programming for people to educate themselves > about a range of social justice issues. If you would like to learn more > about this work, I would encourage you to visit www.educatingforjustice.org. > > I also would like to respond to "JerseyJohn's" specific comment: > > "Just when we were all wondering what this has to do with Asbury Park, the > truth comes out." > > My company, Educating for Justice, is based in Asbury Park. We have, as I > shared with the list in an email yesterday, made a commitment to developing > some > social justice programs here in the city. One is focused on feeding the > hungry, one is focused on giving public witness against the Iraq War, a war > that > we and many others believe is unjust. While some on this list may not > appreciate these programs, there are many people in this community who might > like to > take part and we wanted to offer the invitation to them. That is what this > has > to do with Asbury Park. Insinuation that it is anything else is > disingenuous. > > I hope this clears up any questions or misperceptions that people may have > had about what I do and what my intentions are. If you still do have > questions > or concerns, please feel free to email me. > > Peace, Jim Keady > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > I hope I can hold you to a man of your word & you keep his e-mail > private.And you didn't give it out to anyone.He is still in the Military & > could be court martial for offenses againest the military.I have thank you in > the pass on this site for your soccer program.I wanted to talk to you today > at the Planning Board meeting you wouldn't come out for a couple minutes you > wouldn't come out & talk for what ever reason you had.That the only reason I > went thier.Sorry if I hurt your feelings in anyway is what I was going to > tell you.I see you putting a Iraq Veterans Againest War site on this site and > you prevoius ask me for a Veterans that was wounded in Iraq e-mail you should > have contacted me & let me no that you was keeping his e-mail private like I > ask.You are a postive thing for Asbury Jimmy but everything cannot be solved > threw Peace.Their are to many greedy,dishonest people in the world.{The > ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort & > convenience,but where he stands at times of challenge & controversy} Martin > Luther King
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