Dear Reader, John Fortier is a 77 year old Korean War veteran and a peace activist, who has conducted peace vigils each week in Redondo Beach (Los Angeles area) since just before President Bush launched the Iraq War in March, 2003. The following in his words, is a summary of his latest vigil:
Yo Dick ~
I intended to beat you to it with a 'report', but there just wasn't much to say and I got easily distracted.
I feel bad about the 5:30 - 6:30 folks that I missed, but from 4 till 5:30 things went rather well.
I finally saw an accident between a bicyclist and a car about ten feet in front of me.
A guy about 50 was pedalling north on the sidewalk and into the pedestrian walkway, against the red hand signal.
A lady started her right turn and they met. His bike fell over with himon it and she stopped in the same second, even before her bumper went over him.
He came up cursing the driver, walked to the car in the middle lane and yelled about the #%@>* that 'ran into' him, hopped on his bike and took off north on thesidewalk.
No helmet, no lights, no light clothing, no brains.
I had a hand-me-over jacket with a hood that cushioned the cold very nicely. And three pairs of pants, and the 'boots' Grant fixed for me to keep my feet toasty.
I am going to get organized so that next Friday I can speed down to San Pedro and catch their vigil [ 5 - 7 pm ]at 1st and Gaffey. I should be able to catch one hour of it.That's about it. See you Wednesday.
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