The "Wave if you want peace" story (Dispatch, Sept. 17) is interesting. However, the Bible states that there will be no peace until the Prince of Peace comes, namely Jesus Christ. All of us long for world peace and absence of war and should pray for it. But Michael Hill is walking on the wrong street corner. He should be walking in Sudan, where girls and women are kidnapped and sold into slavery, or in Russia/Ukraine, where a despot has the goal of restructuring the former evil empire, the Soviet Union. Maybe he should walk in Nigeria or Iran, where they imprison and kill Christians and other religions different from their brand of Islam. Or how about walking in Iraq, where there are beheadings, rape, killing of children, women and Christians, where ISIS boasts that they are coming to the USA (and some are already here) and attack us? Closer to home, he could walk in Dearborn, Mich., where anyone not of the Muslim faith is unwelcome and even denied access to their streets. Chicago would be a great place to walk where scores of murders take place weekly. I could go on and on with suggestions of better places to walk than in Eatonville. The comments about protesting at Bangor and blocking trains carrying equipment to the base really leaves a bad taste in one's mouth. No one likes war, and if the USA just-áignored any action relating to war (like is happening today), Mr. Hill might be speaking German or Japanese, living under a Communist flag, existing in a third-world replica country, or not living at all, especially in a free country. War is hell, but it is also a reality. In a lesser example, why not empty the jails of murderers, rapists, wife beaters, bank robbers, etc., and just preach peace to them? Why discipline your young children, as discipline is not fun or invited by the progeny when they deliberately are defiant, break the rules, hit their siblings over the head with the stick or tell their parents they hate them? Just tell them you want peace. Claudia Branham Graham
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