Above: Washington Cathedral, last Sunday night…

• Where George Bush Jr. declared the ‘War on Terror’ following 9/11 – then invading Iraq, acting on fraudulent intelligence, without any strategy for the future of Iraq as a democracy, but with the bonus of a stake in Middle Eastern oil, a testing ground for the development of American arms technology and a base for exerting influence in neighbouring Islamic states.

• Where Donald Trump, at the traditional inauguration service in 2025, got a sermon about the central message of Biblical Christianity from the presiding bishop, in contrast to his abuse in using the cathedral as a backdrop for his media promotional act to win over the Christian vote, waving a big black Bible to declare himself a Christian.

A beautiful and defiant response to last week’s nasty media set-up of Ukrainian President Zelensky by Trump and his attack dog, Vance, in the Oval Office, to humiliate and discredit him.

As the Pete Seeger, quoting the Good Book in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, ‘there is… a time for every purpose under heaven‘.

Now is the time to stand up against tyranny.
And what a smart way the people at the Washington National Cathedral have employed to do it.

Words to a song I wrote, just after the Russian invasion of Ukraine:

People of Ukraine
Words and Music, Geoff Boyce. March 2022

1. The people of Ukraine are facing fighting once again 
But they’re u-nit-ed to hold onto their stor-y. 
Mister Pu-tin, it seems, is pur-su-ing his dream
Of an em-pire of past guts and glory. 

Refrain:
 Hold on …hold on to peace,
Stand firm, sub-vert the power of demons. 
Clev-er-ly fight to dis-arm the blight 
Eroding love and our spirit of freedom.

Hold on …hold on to grace,
Stand firm, sup-port the broken-hearted.
Those king-doms will crash, we mayl be left with the ash, 
But we will grasp the true love of neigh-bour. 

2. It takes cour-age to stand against a pow-e-rful man 
Who’s using fear, con-trol, man-ipu-la-tion;
Head-long to de-struc-tion, victim of his own se-duc-tion 
He calls the shots of in-tim-i-da-tion.

Refrain:

3. Clos-er to home, there are ‘lead-ers’ we know 
Who’ve for-gott-en ‘the first must be last’;
Closed doors and se-crets, due pro-cess un-heed-ed,  
Dest-roy-ing all frame-works of trust.

Refrain:

Additional Finale Refrain

Hold on …hold on…
Don’t let their fear and hate con-trol you
Let bitt-er-ness go, you’re too big for that low
Hold firm, with loving in your going

End: (Rit.) Hold firm, with loving in your going.

I am hoping to find someone who is willing to record and make available the song, ‘People of Ukraine’ to the public.