Eyes Wide Open Across Pennsylvania
Easton and Bethlehem - September 23-25th 2007
Northampton Community College – Bethlehem
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| Boots laid out at Northampton Community College |
Comments from Volunteer coordinators:
Community colleges are a place in the thick of this war and an excellent place to hold the exhibit.
A beautiful day. The Community College was very organized with two classes (an art class and a political science class) helping to set up. We trained between 15-20 listeners who volunteered.
Within an hour we had talked with at least three people who have ties to the war. A young women whose brother is headed to Afghanistan (has already been in Iraq), for her the exhibit was upsetting. A veteran of the 1st gulf War who is very supportive of bush and says opponents of the war are traitors. He is clearly very emotional about two of his friends killed in the war whose boots are here. Another women knows people in the war and is upset at civilian shoes for Iraqi’s and nothing for 9/11 victims. One woman lost her 61 year old husband to Hodgkin’s disease that was due to Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam. She was she had to be here event though it reminds her of her sadness at her husband’s death.
The President of the College, Dr Art Scott visited early and expressed appreciation for the exhibit.
Hope Harowitz brought two Social Problems classes to the exhibit including a young man who lost his leg in Afghanistan. We also had two Critical Reading classes attend.
One father spent time with the exhibit while waiting for his daughter. She was a medic in Iraq around 2005 and helped attend to over 12,000 injured people while she was there. He thanked us for being there.
Lafayette College – Easton
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| Lafayette College |
We trained nine students and one community person as listeners.
It was a beautiful clear day, even hot in the sun. The activity was generally slow although it picked up on the second day after being on Channel 69 and a story and picture were in the express Times.
Two classes visited one led by a Quaker. The President of the college brought his 8 year old son and was very appreciative of the exhibit.
The aunt of Joshua Klinger, an area soldier killed in Iraq, visited in the afternoon on Monday. One volunteer listener told the story of a conversation with student who has lost five of his friends in the war in one attack.
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