The Women in Black will hold a candlelight procession Tuesday night.

FARMINGTON – Local members of an informal international peace network known as Women in Black are asking area residents to reflect this Veterans Day on all the veterans of armed conflict, civilians and military alike.

The Women in Black will walk in a silent candlelight procession at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, from the post office to Meeting House Park. There they will read out the names of military and civilian men, women and children who had died in the last year in conflict and post-conflict situations around the globe, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine and West Africa.

“The list of war dead includes people of every age and many nationalities,” said Lee Sharkey, a member of Farmington Women in Black. “By naming them we remind ourselves of the human cost of war, to the victims and those who mourn them. Everyone is welcome to join us in this quietly reflective ceremony.”

Farmington Women in Black is part of an informal international peace network that protests war, rape as a tool of war, ethnic cleansing and other human rights abuses through silent vigils and initiatives such as the Veterans Day commemoration.

The Farmington group, one of several Women In Black groups in Maine, conducts a vigil every Friday from noon to 12:30 p.m in front of the post office.