Fr Larry Rosebaugh, an Oblate priest, was shot and killed on May 18 2009 by masked gunmen in Guatemala. He had spent his life among people on the margins. Imprisoned for 20 months for destroying draft files in Milwaukee. He lived among the homeless, scrounging in dumpsters for
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his daily bread, scarcely distinguishable from those he served. Arrested in Brazil while ministering to street people. Imprisoned again for broadcasting tapes of Romero to Salvadoran troops training at Ft Benning’s School of the Americas.
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He spent his last years in Guatemala ministering to young people battling AIDS, when his superior told him it was time to come home. He never made it.
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I'm from El Salvador. I've came to realize that the armed conflict begun and ended with the murder of churchmen, particularly those aligned with the liberation theory like Ft Rosebaugh
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
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