One way to get rid of old bad karma is....

One way to get rid of old bad karma is to make good karma right now.

I was watching footage of the Iraq Veterans Against the War protest at the NATO conference in Chicago this week. The 50 vets who threw away their metals from "The Global War on Terror." were angry, hurt, damaged, ashamed, disenfranchised, and more. But they are also courageous, changing, sharing their message that war in general and this illegal, imperialistic occupation of Iraq, in specific, is a terrible crime.

Many of them spoke words of apology to the countless and uncounted Iraqi children who have been killed, maimed, left without parents, homes, safe drinking water. These soldiers are transforming their karma. It is a beautiful sight to see warriors turn into fighters for peace.

Sorry that John McCain never got that courage.

It is a sad truth that almost wherever you go in this planet, people will have a living memory of war. When I was a kid visiting  my grandparents in Kutztown, PA, I met the man down the street who had fought in our Civil War. My grandfather Braucher died at a young age from pneumonia. He was a farmer raised on a beautiful Pennsylvania Dutch farm. He had to leave the farm at a very young age when he returned from WW1 with permanent lung damage from having been mustard gassed. He was lucky. He lived to come home.

I really admire the Bradley Mannings of the world and each and every soldier who has turned toward the work of stopping the senseless killings and ending these shameful wars. When I speak in terms of karma, it may not match their verbiage, but the turn they have made must help them to sleep and to breathe better. They are using their present time and present consciousness to make god karma for this life and future lives.