The truth and only the truth is the current mantra. God look to us all!

Words and sentences that come from our mouths without an appreciation of the complexity and dichotomy that they often contain, especially when we are referencing our past.

Our past – violence and hurt and death that embroiled us for the greater part of 40 years.

The legacy of grief and anger from those years has lost some of its political repercussions, but little of its human impact.

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We can expect that phrase about the truth is going to play an important role in the coming year and in the continuing tension of how this community addresses the pain that remains after and because of those 40 years.

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