Remembering Family Veterans at a Sweat Lodge Ceremony

Just relaxing after a great Sweat Lodge Ceremony tonight at the VA Hospital complex here in Salt Lake City. Especially remembered, among others, Vietnam Veterans , Koda George Whirlwind Soldier, Tommy Rock Roads, Freddie Quinn, my Dekshi Lionel Comes Home Swimming, Korean War Veteran, my Dekshi's Wilfred Cadotte and Winnie Loves War, my Aunties Jean and Elizabeth Lane, and my father Mato Gi, Brown Bear, Phil Lane Sr, World II Veterans and my Grandfather Walter Strongheart, Chante Waste World 1 Veteran and, of course my Great Grandfather's Joshua Low Dog and Pizi, Chief Gaul, Veterans of the Greasy Grass and other battles of the 1870's. My World Peace Prevail!

"The Great Peace towards which people of good will throughout the centuries have inclined their hearts, of which seers and poets for countless generations have expressed their vision, and for which from age to age the sacred teachings of humankind have constantly held the promise, is now at long last within the reach of the nations and the human family. For the first time in history it is possible for everyone to view the entire planet, with all its myriad diversified peoples, in one perspective.World peace is not only possible but inevitable. It is the next stage in the evolution of this planet!"

Universal House of Justice

Historic black-and-white portrait of a Lakota man with long hair and a feather, wrapped in a fur robe and holding a feathered object.

A man in a black cowboy hat, tinted glasses and beaded leather vest kneels beside a large hide hand drum, holding a drumstick.

Vintage black-and-white photo of a man in a military uniform and cap standing beside a small boy in a white sailor hat and overalls.

Black-and-white photo dated June 1961 of two men and two women standing arm in arm and smiling in a home.