Held in the Light: Norman Morrison's Sacrifice for Peace and His Family's Journey of Healing
Christian Century, Dec 16, 2008
Held in the Light: Norman Morrison's Sacrifice for Peace and His Family's Journey of Healing. By Anne Morrison Welch with Joyce Hollyday. Orbis, 192 pp., $20.00. In 1965, Norman Morrison, a Quaker and the father of three young children, immolated himself at the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam war.
Some 30 years later his widow, Anne Morrison Welch, and her two grown daughters traveled to Vietnam. They were warmly received there, and the experience helped Welch find healing. Realizing the devastation of the war for the Vietnamese, Welch's daughter Christina declared, "Few Americans would support a modern-day war if they directly witnessed the horror of it."
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