SOA Vigil

The SOA Vigil was such a moving experience; it was so sad to hear all the names of the people who were murdered by the SOA graduates. It was amazing to see all the crosses of the people and the age range of the people who died. A touching story is a woman said she could hear her children crying for her as the SOA graduates where killing her children; she was hiding in a bush and said she could not help them because she had to survive so she could tell people the truth about what happened. At the SOA protest a few years ago she stood on stage as they read the names of people who were killed in the massacre in her town; as they read the names she would say "that was my neighbor, that was my child, that was my husband". This story was really touching because here we are teaching people how to kill other people so that they can overtake dictatorships and further corrupt the world, while people in Latin American countries are fighting for their lives and losing their loved ones. I was surprised by the amount of police officers that were at the vigil; I did not expect there to be so many officers or helicopters. There was a tape playing over and over again stating if you cross the fence you will be arrested and put into jail. What I didn't understand was they do not want their land to be damaged but yet they will go into people's countries, towns and homes and damage it and murder them, that just did not make sense to me. It boggled my mind because it does not amend to the moral theory of treat others how you want to be treated. How could these people think it ok to kill innocent people and assassin dictators in Latin American countries?