The Navy’s “Blue Angels” flight team is coming to Naval Air Station Brunswick (NASB) again to recruit young people to join the military and to promote the military industrial complex.

Maine Veterans for Peace will organize a non-violent statewide peace march from the downtown Brunswick mall to NASB on September 6 beginning at 9:30 am. An all-night candlelight vigil will also be held beginning at 6:00 pm at the NASB main gate on Friday, September 5.

The Blue Angels F-18 Hornet jets are “attack aircraft” that drop bombs, fire missiles and cannons and in the real world are used in places like Iraq to kill people.

At a time of diminishing supplies of fossil fuels, and dramatically rising cost of gasoline, the Blue Angels team burns over 8,000 gallons of fuel in one day and significantly contributes to greenhouse gases. On the one hand our government encourages us to conserve fuel and then flies these war planes that waste an inordinate amount of fuel over our heads.

As we face social spending cuts in our state and nation, imagine what we could do with the $57 million that each F-18 Hornet costs to build. Imagine the home heating oil help, home weatherization, or even health care assistance we could provide in our communities with those funds. Over 50% of every tax dollar now goes to fight “endless war.” Maine’s share of the Iraq quagmire has already cost taxpayers in our state $1.5 billion.

Maine Veterans for Peace-Chapter 001 www.vfpmaine.org 865-0655 or 443-9502

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