--- 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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