Fox, Tom (1951-2006) - Revision history

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	EMU President Loren Swartzendruber also issued a statement to the EMU community.		EMU President Loren Swartzendruber also issued a statement to the EMU community.

	"Tom's death . . . reminds us of the trgic deaths of ~~peole~~ of all nationalities through senseless violence around the world. . . .		"Tom's death . . . reminds us of the trgic deaths of people of all nationalities through senseless violence around the world. . . .

	"Please pray for Tom's family, co-workers, friends and for CJP faculty member Lisa Schirch and others on our campus who knew him personally."		"Please pray for Tom's family, co-workers, friends and for CJP faculty member Lisa Schirch and others on our campus who knew him personally."

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	<center><font size="+2">'''CPT finds no signs that slain worker was tortured'''</font></center>		<center><font size="+2">'''CPT finds no signs that slain worker was tortured'''</font></center>

	<span style="font-variant:small-caps">'''By Robert Rhodes</~~font~~>		<span style="font-variant:small-caps">'''By Robert Rhodes'''</span>

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 Lessons for the group, Hoover said, were learning to be more media savvy and refraining from public speculation about Fox and the other CPTers whereabouts.
-"The other piece was just living with the not knowing," Hoover said &#8212;
+"The other piece was just living with the not knowing," Hoover said &#8212; a suspense that heightened each time a new video showing the hostages appeared on television or the Internet.
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			''Mennonite Weekly Review'' obituary: 2006 Apr 24 p. 6

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			<center>font size="+2">'''Pastor reflects on work with slain CPTer'''</font></center>

			<span style="font-variant:small-caps">'''Robert Rhodes'''</span>

			<font size="1">Mennonite Weekly Review</font>

			A Mennonite pastor in Virginia said working with slain peace activist Tom Fox taught her the importance of supporting those who risk harm in the interest of peace.

			Fox, 54, a Quaker from Clearbrook, Va., was one of four Christian Peacemaker Teams activists kidnapped Nov. 26 in Baghdad. He was found shot to death on March 9, two weeks before his three colleagues were rescued in a military raid on the house in western Baghdad where they had been held for 118 days.

			Pearl Hoover, pastor of Northern Virginia Mennonite Church in Fairfax, Va., was part of a five-member support group who stayed in touch with Fox during his stints in Iraq with CPT.

			Initially, Hoover said, the group met with Fox in a McLean, Va., restaurant whenever he returned from Iraq, serving as a kind of "clearness committee" as Fox made decisions about his continuing work in the war zone.

			"Tom would talk about whatever was on his mind," Hoover said April 17. They also exchanged emails with Fox after he returned to Iraq.

			But after Fox was kidnapped, the group's mission changed drastically as they began to field queries from the media and sought to lend support to Fox's family. They also worked to keep the kidnapping of the four activists in front of the public eye.

			Hoover said hearing the news that Fox had been seized "was my first awareness that this would not be as simple as we had thought."

			Lessons for the group, Hoover said, were learning to be more media savvy and refraining from public speculation about Fox and the other CPTers whereabouts.

			"The other piece was just living with the not knowing," Hoover said —


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	''Kathleen Kern, of Webster, N.Y., serves with Christian Peacemaker Teams''		''Kathleen Kern, of Webster, N.Y., serves with Christian Peacemaker Teams''


			''Mennonite Weekly Review'' obituary: 2006 Apr 17 p. 2

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			<center><font size="+2">'''CPTer 'moved toward the light''''</font></center>

			<center><font size="+1">Slain activist remembered; two tell of months of hostages</font></center>

			<span style="font-variant:small-caps">'''By Robert Rhodes'''</span><br>
			<font size="1">Mennonite Weekly Review</font>

			Slain Christian Peacemaker Teams activist Tom Fox was remembered during a memorial service as a quiet man whose interest in CPT was born when he saw the devastation of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

			Meanwhile, three CPTers kidnapped with Fox on Nov. 26 in Baghdad and rescued on March 23 settle back into their post-captivity lives and CPT continues to explore its future role in Iraq.

			Two of the former hostages also described aspects of their lives during their 118-day ordeal.

			CPT co-director Doug Pritchard spoke at an April 2 memorial service in Toronto for Fox, a Quaker from Clearbrook, Va., whose body was found shot to death in Baghdad on march 9.

			"When he saw the devastation from [9/11], he saw in his mind the vision that Quaker leader George Fox had of a sea of darkness and flowing over it a sea of light," Pritchard said in a eulogy released by CPT. "Tom said, 'While I knew very little about CPT, at the time I had a clear sense that I wanted very much to find some way to pull us out of the darkness and move the world (even if it was the movement of one human being) toward the light.' That one human being has moved toward the light, and the world has moved with him."

			Bob Holmes, a pastoral support coordinator for CPT, also spoke at the April 2 service and remembered Fox doing yoga and meditating each morning on the roof of CPT's Baghdad apartment.

			"I can bear witness to his standing firm, giving in to neither anger nor fear, as he stood shoulder to shoulder with ordinary Iraqi citizens, never knowing if they would be coming home each evening, given the daily danger of bombing, kidnapping, arrest and detention," Holmes said.

			Another memorial service for Fox, hosted by CPT, will be held at 3 p.m. april 22 at Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C. Fox's Quaker congregation, Langley Hill Friends Meeting in McLean, Va., also plans to hold a service of its own.

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	<font size="+2">WORLD NEIGHBORS<br><~~/font~~>		<font size="+2">WORLD NEIGHBORS</font><br>
	<span style="font-variant:small-caps">'''Kathleen Kern<span style="font-variant:small-caps">'''		<span style="font-variant:small-caps">'''Kathleen Kern<span style="font-variant:small-caps">'''

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	<center><font size="+2">'''''What would Tom have said?'''''</font></center>		<center><font size="+2">'''''What would Tom have said?'''''</font></center>

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	<span style="font-variant:small-caps">'''Kathleen Kern<span style="font-variant:small-caps">''' ==		<span style="font-variant:small-caps">'''Kathleen Kern<span style="font-variant:small-caps">'''

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	A Tom Fox Memorial Fund to benefit EMU's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding has been established.		A Tom Fox Memorial Fund to benefit EMU's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding has been established.


			''Mennonite Weekly Review'' obituary: 2006 Apr 10 p. 5

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			== WORLD NEIGHBORS ==



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	Zimmerman said she is "especially proud of EMU's Muslim alumni and visiting professors who have bravely spoken on behalf of the hostages."		Zimmerman said she is "especially proud of EMU's Muslim alumni and visiting professors who have bravely spoken on behalf of the hostages."

	Khadija Ossoble Ali, a Somali Muslim who earned a master's degree in conflict transformation at EMU in 2000, responded to news of Fox's death with an emailed ~~statemnt~~ to her fellow alumni.		Khadija Ossoble Ali, a Somali Muslim who earned a master's degree in conflict transformation at EMU in 2000, responded to news of Fox's death with an emailed statement to her fellow alumni.

	"He was the hope for a better future for all of us who have been kept hostage by a small minority in the name of religion," Ali said. "May we all pray for Tom, for his bravery and courageous work and may God bless him and give us the strength to succeed and transform our despair to a more peaceful coexistence as human beings."		"He was the hope for a better future for all of us who have been kept hostage by a small minority in the name of religion," Ali said. "May we all pray for Tom, for his bravery and courageous work and may God bless him and give us the strength to succeed and transform our despair to a more peaceful coexistence as human beings."
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	"Thus, many of us have in a deep, personal way experienced the mourning you now experience and share in your ongoing, profound commitment to God's way."		"Thus, many of us have in a deep, personal way experienced the mourning you now experience and share in your ongoing, profound commitment to God's way."

	Two North American Mennonite leaders — Jack Suderman, general secretary of Mennonite Church Canada, and Jim Schrag, executive director of Mennonite Church USA — prayed during the ~~coundil~~'s time of remembering Fox.		Two North American Mennonite leaders — Jack Suderman, general secretary of Mennonite Church Canada, and Jim Schrag, executive director of Mennonite Church USA — prayed during the council's time of remembering Fox.

	"We mourn the death of Tom Fox, your servant," Suderman said. "We pray for the peace and justice he died for."		"We mourn the death of Tom Fox, your servant," Suderman said. "We pray for the peace and justice he died for."
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	CPTer Rich Meyer said March 20 that Fox's body, discovered by Iraqi police and recovered by U.S. forces on march 9, had gunshot wounds to the head and chest, but no other signs of injury.		CPTer Rich Meyer said March 20 that Fox's body, discovered by Iraqi police and recovered by U.S. forces on march 9, had gunshot wounds to the head and chest, but no other signs of injury.

	Media reports attributed to ~~iraqi~~ police officials had indicated that Fox, 54, of Clearbrook, Va., was bound and beaten before his killing. ''Newsweek'' had reported that Fox's throat was cut.		Media reports attributed to Iraqi police officials had indicated that Fox, 54, of Clearbrook, Va., was bound and beaten before his killing. ''Newsweek'' had reported that Fox's throat was cut.

	"We saw no signs of torture or that his throat had been slit," Meyer said.		"We saw no signs of torture or that his throat had been slit," Meyer said.
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	Instead, I felt a heaviness, because I learned they heard only after their release about the death of Tom Fox — a man who had encouraged them through weeks of fear and excruciating boredom and helped pass the time by teaching music theory.		Instead, I felt a heaviness, because I learned they heard only after their release about the death of Tom Fox — a man who had encouraged them through weeks of fear and excruciating boredom and helped pass the time by teaching music theory.

	I met Tom at our CPT full-timers retreat at Strawberry Island, Ont., in 2004. On the ride back to Toronto, he told me that of all the presidents he ~~ahd~~ played under in the White House band, he like Ronald Reagan the best.		I met Tom at our CPT full-timers retreat at Strawberry Island, Ont., in 2004. On the ride back to Toronto, he told me that of all the presidents he had played under in the White House band, he like Ronald Reagan the best.

	"But Tom," I said, and began listing all the atrocities that the Reagan administration had committed in Central America in the 1980s.		"But Tom," I said, and began listing all the atrocities that the Reagan administration had committed in Central America in the 1980s.
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	Media headlines constantly change. We will try to tether ourselves to the eternal gospel as we seek to work on behalf of the least of these.		Media headlines constantly change. We will try to tether ourselves to the eternal gospel as we seek to work on behalf of the least of these.

	And I will try to imagine the magnanimous ~~thigs~~ Tom Fox might have said about those who vilified us.		And I will try to imagine the magnanimous things Tom Fox might have said about those who vilified us.

	''Kathleen Kern, of Webster, N.Y., serves with Christian Peacemaker Teams''		''Kathleen Kern, of Webster, N.Y., serves with Christian Peacemaker Teams''