how anyone can say

I LOVE WAR is beyond me. how someone can have a problem or ANY issue with PEACE is beyond me. what are these kids thinking? if i were there parents perhaps i'd monitor their video games a bit more.

why would someone NOT want to coexist with the rest of the world in harmony? what sort of person WANTS other people to die (because guess what, people DIE UGLY DEATHS IN WAR)? wants grandfathers and children and grandmothers to die? wants people to be displaced? wants torture and famine?

what sort of person writes 'white power' over a sign that says peace? what sort of school administration allows that to go unpunished i wonder?

and confederate flags? HOW THE F**K DOES THAT 'SUPPORT THE TROOPS'? someone ought to tell lydia pace and joseph marianetti EXACTLY what a confederate flag stands for (and it AIN'T TO SUPPORT THE TROOPS).

Give peace a chance Group says wearing their shirts on campus has caused quite a stir
BY MEAGAN HAPPEL SENIOR,
Students at Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High are waging a war on peace.
It all started when sophomore Skylar Stains decided to have Peace Shirt Thursdays. Skylar and her friend, Lauren Lorraine, started wearing peace shirts and soon recruited more friends to wear them. Now, the "Peace Shirt Coalition" as they call themselves, has close to 30 students from all grades.
"We've worn handmade peace shirts every Thursday since the first week of school, without fail," Skylar said.
But what started out as a light-hearted gesture soon started to be taken out of context. Students started approaching the group members, yelling obscene things at them, said Lauren.
"People just turned on us like that," she said. "At least 10 boys stood up and yelled things at me at once, and we couldn't even walk through the halls without a harsh comment being made."
The heckling began early in the school year, according to group members. They say they were putting small posters promoting peace on friends' lockers with their permission. They thought it was OK, because the cheerleaders and football players had signs on theirs. Eventually, though, group members say they were told by the school's administration they could no longer hang up the posters.
"People tore them down and drew swastikas and 'white power' stuff on them," Lauren said.....
.....However, Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High sophomores Lydia Pace and Joseph Marianetti say the Confederate shirts they wear express support for the troops in Iraq, and nothing more. Joseph said the shirts have nothing to do with racism......