{"id":34354,"date":"2013-07-28T21:47:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T21:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=34354"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:32:32","slug":"young2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=34354","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance, Forgiveness, Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Remembrance:<br \/>\nOf a place called Jonestown<br \/>\nAnd the dignity and unity<br \/>\nOf its inhabitants\u2013<br \/>\nFamily, friends, and those who<br \/>\nJoined along the way.<br \/>\nAn inter-racial, social democratic<br \/>\nSociety dedicated to serve all people.<\/p>\n<p>Forgiveness:<br \/>\nLong in coming and difficult<br \/>\nTo utter.<br \/>\nI forgive you Jim Jones<br \/>\nFor forcing mass murder<br \/>\nOn the inhabitants of<br \/>\nJonestown.<br \/>\nNo bitterness remains,<br \/>\nOnly pity for your soul.<\/p>\n<p>Hope:<br \/>\nAll is not lost.<br \/>\nRecent global demonstrations<br \/>\nDemanding equality and<br \/>\nSocial justice have prevailed.<br \/>\nOne day soon, nations with<br \/>\nMuch will share with those<br \/>\nWho have not.<\/p>\n<p>Proud am I of family<br \/>\nAnd friends who manifested<br \/>\nGoodness and made it<br \/>\nA reality.<\/p>\n<p>May they rest in peace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>(This poem was recently published in <\/em>Great Poets Across America: A Celebration of National Poetry Month <em>(Shrewsbury, PA: <\/em><em>Eber &amp; Wein Publishing, 2012)<\/em><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>(<strong>Guy Young<\/strong> was a former member of Peoples Temple. His articles and poems for this site appear <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=17063\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/us\/obituaries\/name\/guy-young-obituary?id=59261524\">died<\/a> on August 16, 2025.)<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembrance: Of a place called Jonestown And the dignity and unity Of its inhabitants\u2013 Family, friends, and those who Joined along the way. An inter-racial, social democratic Society dedicated to serve all people. Forgiveness: Long in coming and difficult To utter. I forgive you Jim Jones For forcing mass murder On the inhabitants of Jonestown. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":34369,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34354","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34354"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131708,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34354\/revisions\/131708"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}