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T«k the editor:
I would like to thank Fletcher Eastham for describing me as a talented artist and for stimulating an opportunity to articulate my beliefs about the complex issue of world peace.
Two things happened on that Thursday evening in the fire hall that prompted such a passionate response by Mr. Eastham, as far as I can tell. One, he did not hear my words as I said them, and. two, in the imperfection of the moment, my words did not convey my intentions clearly.
I described one of my art works which was exhibited at the gathering. I said that the collage, entitled “Fathers of Fate” was a dialogue with myself about the things that I love about men and the things that I fear about men. What I love includes my father and husband and the model of the lives of Vincent Van Gogh, Albert Einstein and Jesus Christ. What I fear is soldiers and the military mentality that would ever allow a nuclear w ar to happen.
I realized after reading Mr. Eastham’s comments that it is the decision to use violence and weaponry in a conflict which stimulates my greatest fear - not an individual soldier. I readily apologize to veterans who may have interpreted my statements as belittling their sacrifices. That was far from the spirit in which I spoke.
It is my abhorrence of killing and war that propels me to seek non-military solutions to conflicts in our contemporary world. Nuclear weapons change the scale of potential loss dramatically. Their unparalleled destructive capacity makes it more imperative than ever before in history that we use the power of our minds
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