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Compatriots,
We don’t forget, we won’t forget, we can’t forget.
It is October 19 th and our hearts ache as we remember the pain, the shock, the hurt, the incredulity, the numbness of that horror movie that was the beheading and the behearting of ourselves.
But as we remember, more than remembering, we must choose to put back on our heads and to heal back our hearts. Yes, we can choose to do that.
Let us choose to understand, to dialogue, to pause when in doubt, to give up when we face inexplicable vexing challenges; let us choose to forgive, to make amends and of course, 37 years later, let us still choose to love. Love one another that is.
For the new, full length movie we are making must be one of love. Other scripts cannot stand the scrutiny of the test of reputational time. Only love will make our movie last the way we want it to.
May we love one another sincerely and fiercely, and may the souls of our brave and beloved Maurice Bishop, cabinet leaders and all other equally loved comrades, young and old, rest in peace.
With prayers for love and peace between us all.
Dessima
Dessima D Williams is a Grenadian diplomat and former Ambassador to the United Nations from Grenada during the Grenada Revolution who was reappointed to the ambassadorship in 2008. She is also the founder and Director of the Grenada Education and Development Programme (GRENED)