Chapter 14: Pilgrimage For Peace… “After Costa Rica, I went to Europe and met with the Foreign Ministers of Denmark, Sweden, West Germany, and Belgium, encouraging them to use their influence to stop the war. I still felt as if I were in a dream. What was the use of visiting this luxurious offices and meeting with prestigious people while my countrymen continued to suffer under the bombs? I visualized the bodies killed and maimed by the war, and I imagined that even the rice plants must be too afraid to ripen, lest the grains be burned by the hellish bombs.”