A Mother's Prayer

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item posted 1:52:42: 11-12-06 by kyle.

Rebecca MacNeice, an amazing filmmaker who's spent much of this year chronicling the peace movement, has her newest documentary short online at Truthout: A profile of activist Elaine Johnson, whose son Spc. Darius Jennings, 22, was killed in Iraq in November, 2003. In all, four soldiers have died in Iraq from Jennings' hometown of Orangeburg, South Carolina, population 14,460.

"Every time a soldier dies around my area, South Carolina, and Georgia, I pack up my truck and I go to that mother, and I comfort the mother. I go just because I know how it feels. […] I ask God during the holidays to stay with these families, help us get through the holidays, because family is supposed to be together. And those of us who have loved ones who won't be at that dinner table, for Thanksgiving and Christmas, just throw His arms around us." — Elaine Johnson

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