“Reporting for Duty: My Urgency for Justice and Peace” recounts the efforts of author Andrew Mills, a retired groundwater hydrologist/programmer from Lower Gwynedd, to promote justice and peace in a time of inequity and conflict.
“I love my country deeply, and so I want it to live up to its promise of brotherhood, truth, and fairness, and to commit to being a peaceful neighbor among the community of nations,” Mills said in the title’s press kit.
Mills, a frequent letter and guest opinion writer to the Bucks County Herald and other publications, wrote the book, he said, to encourage people to invest themselves in justice and peace initiatives.
Published in mid-December by Resource Publications, “Reporting for Duty” highlights Mills’ participation in part of the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. in 1965 and his work in Costa Rica in 1985 as part of a Witness for Peace group that was kidnapped by the Contras.
He has spoken out against America’s involvement in the Vietnam War, lobbied against the Contra war and to stop support of El Salvador’s promotion of death squads.
“Reporting for Duty” is Mills’ sophomore effort published by Resource Publications. His first — “Home in India” — told of his missionary work in the Madurai District of South India in the 1950s and ‘60s.
“Here is a memoir illuminating a conscience in action,” peace activist Paul Magno said of Mills’ book. “He takes us to the iconic Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and to a Contra stronghold down the Rio San Juan in Nicaragua — places where nonviolent practice in the very face of oppressive violence embodies what moral and political courage looks like.”
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