No, I think *you* missed the point.

So, all of Truman is buzzing because of the crazy chalking antics of the various pro/against-war groups on campus. On Monday morning, the campus woke up to find chalk outlines of bodies with "Saudi mother," "American soldier," "British brother," "Israeli daughter," "Kurdish student" etc written in them. Let me tell y'all, it's a little creepy to walk around a campus with chalk outlines all over the place.

This lead to interesting breakfast conversation about whether or not the Peace Patrol (as they've been dubbed) went too far to try and make their point: the war affects everyone, soldier and otherwise.

The next time I saw the outlines, the message had changed a little. Totally opposite from the Peace Patrol (PP) are the fanatic military people (not the ROTC, they have more class than that) who can't let the PP do anything without commenting. Obviously, the fanatics went and invested in some chalk of their own because the labels had changed from "Kurdish mother" to "Kurdish thug," "Saudi child" to "Saudi terrorist" and the like. The others, such as British, American, etc, now included messages about how "Saddam killed you!"

Supper conversation: should we just lock the PP and fanatics in a room and not let them out until they're friends and/or kill each other?

As if both of those didn't enter the range of "Taking it Too Far," today I discovered the fanatics made new outlines featuring the names of actual soldiers killed in battle. Before, I'd kinda laughed at the ongoing war (ironic, huh?) between the two groups, but this is too much. C'mon people--do you have no respect for fallen soldiers? Even if you don't believe in the war, you should see that's too much....and it was the fanatics who did it! (I *am* happy to say the PP left those alone.)

Whether you believe in war or not, you still need to show support for the people who have to go and actually fight in it. If nothing else, they can take all the faith and prayer we can supply them.

More details as they explode.