Post by JAGuar on May 10, 2005 23:24:10 GMT -5
Kari Light, the speaker of this speech expresses his disapproval over the the Nuclear Power Plant on Three Mile Island.
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I live at 24 Ann Street in the first ward and I have my Ph.D. I don't have anything brilliant; I don't have anything documented, or anything political that I would like to share with you. But I would like you to know some of what this has meant to me personally and my relationship with this particular town. I have lived here literally since before I was born. My mother was pregnant here. And this has always been a safe, secure place for me.
Like a lot of other people, when I was young and silly, I left town and I was away for a while; but I came back because this is where I felt I belonged, where I felt safe, and where I felt secure. That is gone. That is important to me. That was a major loss. I work away from here, I work on the West Shore, and I used to feel really good when I'd be driving home. I'd be taking the Highspire Turnpike, and I'd be feeling good.
Now I find any excuse I can not to come straight home. I no longer feel good getting back; I feel worse. That's important to me. Another very important thing to me is children. I work with children. Part of what I do is play therapy with children. And I love them. I enjoy them. There's hardly a child living that I can't feel joyful with, or at least that I couldn't feel joyful with.
That also is gone. I can't look at children, play with children, enjoy children the way I could two or three months ago. I look at them and wonder what's going to happen to them. I wonder which ones of them are going to be able to produce children and which ones are not. I wonder which ones of them are going to have leukemia when they are older; I look at them and I grieve for them. They're not my childre. I don't have children. And I'm grieving for your children, and you should be doing something about it.
I will never feel safe being pregnant in Middletown now. I can remember a time when women could be pregnant and feel good about it. I don't know a lot of women right now who are pregnant who are really comfortable. And I wouldn't want to have to go through that myself. That's another thing that I felt. Feelings about my own self and my own bearing and raising children here in Middletown. That's important to me.
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I hope you all enjoy. I realize it's a long one and pretty difficult to read, but I think that it really shows something about people in the past. That's why this is my speech of the week.
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I live at 24 Ann Street in the first ward and I have my Ph.D. I don't have anything brilliant; I don't have anything documented, or anything political that I would like to share with you. But I would like you to know some of what this has meant to me personally and my relationship with this particular town. I have lived here literally since before I was born. My mother was pregnant here. And this has always been a safe, secure place for me.
Like a lot of other people, when I was young and silly, I left town and I was away for a while; but I came back because this is where I felt I belonged, where I felt safe, and where I felt secure. That is gone. That is important to me. That was a major loss. I work away from here, I work on the West Shore, and I used to feel really good when I'd be driving home. I'd be taking the Highspire Turnpike, and I'd be feeling good.
Now I find any excuse I can not to come straight home. I no longer feel good getting back; I feel worse. That's important to me. Another very important thing to me is children. I work with children. Part of what I do is play therapy with children. And I love them. I enjoy them. There's hardly a child living that I can't feel joyful with, or at least that I couldn't feel joyful with.
That also is gone. I can't look at children, play with children, enjoy children the way I could two or three months ago. I look at them and wonder what's going to happen to them. I wonder which ones of them are going to be able to produce children and which ones are not. I wonder which ones of them are going to have leukemia when they are older; I look at them and I grieve for them. They're not my childre. I don't have children. And I'm grieving for your children, and you should be doing something about it.
I will never feel safe being pregnant in Middletown now. I can remember a time when women could be pregnant and feel good about it. I don't know a lot of women right now who are pregnant who are really comfortable. And I wouldn't want to have to go through that myself. That's another thing that I felt. Feelings about my own self and my own bearing and raising children here in Middletown. That's important to me.
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I hope you all enjoy. I realize it's a long one and pretty difficult to read, but I think that it really shows something about people in the past. That's why this is my speech of the week.
