United States Department Of Peace

PRLog (Press Release) – Mar 14, 2008 – Sometimes I wonder what it will take to build a bridge of love to connect and unite our entire world. Not just your world or my world, but OUR world. What prevents people from knowing and understanding love? I mean, it's not a difficult concept to understand. How can we build a bridge of love?

Being the person I am, I see and feel love all around me. I fill myself with love every day and pass it along to all that I meet. I see love in every tree, on every face, under every rock and I know that it truly conquers all. L'amour triomphe toujours. It is there. Why doesn't everyone see it?

I turn on the television and the news reminds me that the human race has yet to understand peace on Earth. Why is that? Again, it's not a difficult concept to understand. Love one another and accept our differences without hate and injustice. Love one another and accept our similarities without hate and disdain. If we can accept the concepts of love and peace as basic truths within our society, then everything else falls into place. Why would someone want to turn their back on peace and love?

Everyone comes from somewhere and they know and understand their own culture and society. They know what is expected of them and they understand the process by which their lives are governed, whether actual or implied. What if our lives were governed by love and peace?

I've heard of movements across this land that are trying to institute a "Department of Peace" or a "Secretary of Peace" in the United States government. Our country once had a "Secretary of War", which later evolved into the "Secretary of Defense". Why shouldn't we have a "Secretary of Peace"? If this type of governmental affiliation will help to teach peaceful conflict resolution and spread love throughout our world, then what are we waiting for?

A peaceful concept such as this one is on the horizon. "The Peace Alliance" is the campaign that is currently sweeping across our country to promote and establish a "U.S. Department of Peace". They have received overwhelming support from city councils all around our country to help promote the concepts of peace and to reduce violence domestically and around the world. Such celebrated individuals as Walter Cronkite, Tyne Daly, Joaquin Phoenix and Willie Nelson have spoken in favor of this peaceful movement.

I encourage you all to lend your voice to this wonderful cause that can greatly improve the quality of life for everyone in every society. Imagine living in a world where peace is waged instead of war. Imagine building that bridge of love to unite us all through peace and hope. Imagine what a wonderful world it will be.

To learn more about the "U.S. Department of Peace" and "The Peace Alliance", please visit www.thepeacealliance.org.