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READING LEVEL 7
I'm Looking for Justice, Not Vengeance
Andrea LeBlanc
Andrea LeBlanc is a member
of Peaceful Tomorrows. She
worked as a veterinarian
for 37 years. She and her husband, Robert LeBlanc,
parented five children, and
Andrea has nine grandchildren.
After 9/11, I felt very alone amidst all the flagwaving and rallying to war because that wasn't my response, wasn't my kids' response, and wouldn't have been my husband's response.
Before I found out about Peaceful Tomorrows,
I had seen a TV program about a group of
people who had lost family members on 9/11.
They had gone to Afghanistan to meet with families
who had lost family members to U.S. bombs.
I sat there in tears, so grateful that someone had done something
that made sense to me.
The idea that really resonates with me is that we
have a choice, all the time, about what we do with
our emotions.
Anger and despair can both destroy
you—I might have succumbed to despair if
I hadn't found Peaceful Tomorrows.
But you've
got a choice to not let that happen, to instead do
something positive with the emotion.
