Forum on genesis and persistence in advocacy for peace. Faith organizations. My name is john roth. I am editor of the mennonite orderly review and professor of history at Goshen College in northern indiana. I am delighted to serve as moderator of this conversation. Anyone who has taken a tour of the museum here or seen footage of the flag waving parades of enthusiastic young conscripts as they departed for military Training Camp in the summer of 1917 might have the impression that support for the war and the United States entry into the conflict was universal. Yet those of us gathered here for this conference are keenly aware that there were many voices of caution, of dissent, of objection, and even open resistance to the war fever that seemed to grip the nation in the spring and summer of 1917. As we will hear in the days that followed, that dissent originated from many different sources and took many expressions. But one of the lead edges of resistance to the war came from various re
Im delighted to moderate this session. World war i spawned the modern American Peace movement. This modern movement advocated both peace and social justice and was characterized by liberal and radical Citizen Peace activists, womens peace organizations and a progressive reformist impulse. Significantly, this movement contained a powerful secular impulse in the post1914 Peace Movement marked an important milestone in what John Chambers and charles moscose termed the shift from safer to secular red to secularac resistance and towards a new Conscientious Objection. Historically peace activism was based on religious motives, although in the decade or so before 1914 secular middle class peace societies emerged, including the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the world peace foundation. World war i accelerated this trend toward secularization. During the war, socialists, anarchists, and other political radicals based their dissent on secular principles, political, philosophical
Blood, a delaware state trooper shot and killed in the middle of the day outside a Wawa Convenience store. Its so sad. Its just so very, very tragic. A Community Comes to together in grief to pay the speaks to a fallen hero. This as a standoff continues outside the home of a suspect wanted in the deadly shooting. Good evening im Ukee Washington im Nicole Brewer in for jessica dean. A short time ago. They identified him as Corporal Steven ballard. He was an eight and a half year veteran. He was gunned down in the parking lot of a wawa on pulaski highway in Bear Delaware around 12 10. He was responding to a suspicious vehicle when one of the two men inside shot him multiple times. Authorities tracked the gunman to a home in middle town delaware. I remains barricaded inside and firing at the swat team. The other man in that vehicle was arrested at the convenience store. Corporal ballard died at christiana. A long line escorted his body in wilmington. Motorists pulled over and paid tribute
Im Nicole Brewer in for jessica dean. A short time ago. They identified him as Corporal Steven ballard. He was an eight and a half year veteran. He was gunned down in the parking lot of a wawa on pulaski highway in Bear Delaware around 12 10. He was responding to a suspicious vehicle when one of the two men inside shot him multiple times. Authorities tracked the gunman to a home in middle town delaware. I remains barricaded inside and firing at the swat team. The other man in that vehicle was arrested at the convenience store. Corporal ballard died at christiana. A long line escorted his body in wilmington. Motorists pulled over and paid tribute as salutes as the procession made its r way along i95. Corporate ballards casket was carried into the medical Examiners Office. We have live team coverage. It shows you how a community is paying tribute to the trooper. Shriv. Reporter i just spoke two state troopers they told me both new corporal ballard. It is a devastating night for the Polic
Smaller and by january of this year we still had 544,000 overstays from fiscal year 16. Suspected of being in the country. Still an incredibly large number. To put that number in context, we only apprehended 310,000 unique individuals crossing the land border illegally last year. Meaning we had almost twice as many overstays as people apprehended at the land southern border. Its probably time to jet son the conventional wisdom that visa overstays make up about 40 of the elicit flow with this years number of Border Apprehensions at record low, visa overstays are a much bigger problem than it has been historically. So, why does closing this gap in our Border Security defenses matter . Well, there are unidentified National Security and Public Safety risks in a population that large and visa overstays have historically been the primary means for terrorist entry into the United States. Time and time again terrorists exploited the visa system by legally entering america. The 9 11 commission