Friday, November 14, 2014<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve never posted after work on Friday before. \u00a0But, just before heading over to our Faculty Achievement Annual Dinner, I read this account from Mary Jo McConahay, a reporter who came very early to the Jesuit University of Central America on this day 25 years ago Sunday, to see the murdered bodies of six Jesuit faculty members, their cook and her daughter, all murdered by the right wing military of Salvador in the middle of the night. \u00a0 She got there before the blood had been cleaned up. \u00a0One thing Ms. McConahay does not mention that has stayed in my mind: \u00a0the killers split open the skulls of some of the faculty members, scooped some of their brains out, and left them beside their dead bodies. \u00a0It was, I think, a statement by that vicious police state, that professors with PhDs, working to find a voice for brutally poor people, would not win. \u00a0Their brains were reduced to trash.<\/p>\n
These martyrs were well known across the Academy in the US; \u00a0many US scholars had studied with them, respected their intelligence, in many cases loved them the way PhD graduate students come to love each other. \u00a0 They were like our faculty, dedicated to research, teaching and mentoring new generations of students. \u00a0Because they were such credible teacher-scholars, their murders woke the US Congress, thanks especially to Representative Joe Moakley whose Legislative Commission forced some truth into the light about the US funded military who murdered these 8 people, who then joined the tens of thousands of Salvadorans killed with savage brutality in that hard war. \u00a0As a result of their murders and Joe Moakley, the US began to back off from funding a brutal regime.<\/p>\n
Today, 25 years later, it remains an imperfect world. \u00a0Still the beauty of these 2 women and 6 men shines. \u00a0 \u00a0When Joe Moakley died of cancer in 2001, I heard on the news that construction workers on projects along the funeral route in Boston, stood to attention as his body passed. \u00a0I plan to stand to attention on Sunday.<\/p>\n
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