American democracy has a unique capacity for creating and then honoring martyrs for its freedoms. This weekend we celebrate one person who gave his life for our professed ideals.
This vigil honors a current person’s sacrifice. It is a community gathering to remember a woman who also believed in America’s promise.
One of America’s most powerful patriotic anthems was written by a woman Julia Ward Howe in 1861.
For the persons gathering above, they will sing, as she died to make us holy, let us live to make all free.
Renee Good’s truth will cause millions to march on.
A mother of three.
Went on a christian mission to another country.
Stood up for her neighbors with whistles.
Was shot three times by a federal government employee, gun in one hand, cell phone in the other.
She made herself vulnerable to protect the vulnerable.
A presbyterian who followed her conscience with faith.
In death, she inspires hope and conviction in us.
Power cannot silence her witness.
Her name will call forth the best that America represents.
And the ideals that its citizens will sometimes die for. Unasked and never forgotten.
She was indeed good.