 So next I'm going to introduce Kathy Kelly. Kathy Kelly has worked for nearly half a century to end militarism and economic wars. At times her activism has led her to war zones and prisons, sometimes with code pink. And she has traveled to rock and Afghanistan several times and been arrested over 60 times for her activism. So so happy to have you Kathy. Well, thank you. Frank and Emily, it's good to see the dynamic duo of the two of you together. Thank you very much to the dynamic duo of code pink teamed up with Massachusetts peace action. You know, my young Afghan friends have a saying blood doesn't wash away blood. And when I think of that, and think of the United States history and the foreign policy, the foreign policy based on threat and force and bloodletting which is said again and again, if you do not subordinate yourselves to fulfill our national interest, we will eliminate you. And then tag down to that now after the horrible economic sanctions, economic war waged against Iraq, the United States can say and if you don't believe us, look at the graves of the children of Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of them are country practicing child sacrifice, and all the while trying to pretend that somehow we are always those who are victimized. The hypocrisy is enormous. And so here we are today with 800 bases with a military budget that gets increased with the heads of military contracting firms I can do they laugh on their way to the bank with their family of stuff. And United States people still to some extent, a bit of sleep at the wheel. And so what we have before us is so so necessary to to change and I believe that sometimes stories are what enable us to make sense out of our reality. I just like to share briefly with you. The story of a mother whose child had been killed by a bomb following drone surveillance and she knew that the drone up above must have known that her child was only going to that building for shelter. And so I happened to stumble into the funeral for the child and sat in silence and realize that who the mother was because other women were coming and embracing her. And she wore medical hood and a neck brace, and she asked her son to bring pictures of the disastrous day when the bomb had hit the place where her child was sleeping overnight for shelter. And she asked her son to bring a picture of her child. And there was a girl with round big eyes and very serious face but you could imagine her smiling a little six year old girl, and the mother tough the plastic over the picture. And she fixed me with a very definite look. And she asked, who are the terrorists is she the terrorist. And then her eyes welled up, and she was for the name of the President of the United States at the time George Bush. Abraham Heschel Arab I has said, some are guilty, but all are accountable. We do carry this accountability to that mother who asked, who are the terrorists. And then I also am reminded of a young mother in Iraq in an Iraqi hospital, and you know they didn't have any electricity in the hospitals there weren't any lights there wasn't really enough oxygen. And her little child was suffering both from starvation and gastrointestinal disease, and our hearts started to give out so people started screaming up the hallway to get a doctor and he happened to be a doctor I was trying to interview Dr. And the doctor went running and we went after him, and he tried to give mouth to mouth resuscitation to this little infant. He looked up and he said, I am sorry. Your child cannot live. We have not the plastic. We have not the two. And the child's nostril was so small that they didn't have a small piece of plastic to inject into her nose. And so for lack of a piece of plastic, while hundreds and thousands of Iraqi children died because of United States economic warfare, that child died. And then we left from the mother's tears and then the mother said to me, believe me, I pray, I pray that this never happens to a mother from your country. Was she a terrorist. And again and again and again innocent lives stolen wasted we hear Daniel Hale telling us that he would really almost rather go to jail for the crime of having wasted stolen innocent lives, and we must repair the wrong that's been done. We must pay reparations, and also commit reparations by dismantling the terrible military systems that have caused so much havoc, so much despair. And I think two words to begin that entire endeavor must be on the lips of all of us. We're sorry. We're so very sorry. Thank you Kathy for your marks and for a lifetime of work. We really appreciate you you're such an inspiration to to so many of us.