Free the Captives: Witness Against Illegal Detention and Torture

There are yet no concrete plans for the memorial of Tom Fox. Events of remembrance have been hosted by Eastern Mennonite University and Fredereck Friends Meeting. Over the weekend, our memorial page for Tom was updated to include tributes from all over the internet. Contact Martin Kelley if you know of other tributes that do not appear here. You may also share your own reflections here.

We unite with this statement, posted anonymously, under the title The Death of Tom Fox and the Life of Christianity [emphasis mine]:

The tools of war are bombs, bullets and lies. If the objective of this war were really to free Iraqis, rebuild their country, improve their future, we would have to lay aside the tools of war because the first act of love is show trust and trust implies vulnerability. The invulnerable cannot love any more than the uncrucified can save.

In Iraq our soldiers live in fear and want more armor, often shooting anyone who approaches them. At home our American people live in fear and seek anxiously for security; unwilling to accept any risk ,we seem to crave invulnerability, reluctant to make any sacrifice. In short we are become a nation of Anti-Christs. [...]

Thanks to Tom Fox, I am no longer ashamed to call myself a American and a Christian, but I am ashamed I have risked so little for God and my fellow man.