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I am an aspiring professional cyclist. I race and ride: road, track, and cyclocross. I ride for NOW-MS Society Women's Elite Team! I have been racing/riding for approximately 5 years, and hope that I will be able to take this far, and eventually become a professional rider.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Los Osos' STAND- 9/11 Rememberance

On Friday September 10, 2010 the students of Los Osos High School joined together to remember the events of September 11.  The STAND organization at the school organized an event where 1,300 students (about a third of the student body) stood on the grass spelling out the words PEACE.  (Unfortunately I was not able to take place in this event due to being in the hospital, after being hit by a car the day before.)  Afterwords, the names of those lost in that tragic event were read on the loud speaker. 


The point of doing this was to promote peace among different cultures, and to remember the tragidy of those events and how they brought our nation together.   An article was posted on this event on the front page of the Daily Bulletin and online. http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_16045157?IADID=Search-www.dailybulletin.com-www.dailybulletin.com  .  

What is shocking to me is what some of the people commenting on the article.  Some are saying this event was pointless and that the kids of the High School are promoting false hope, and that attempting to obtain peace will be seen as a weakness to the other nations of the world.  Comments like this really infuriated me.  How is an act of PEACE and an attempt by the youth of the world destructive?  It isn't like we were saying that there is never a cause for war.  Our main comment was that a minor act of harmony and tolerance can in general make the various communities of the world a safer place to live.  I would think that being united as a community, country, or the world would NOT promote destruction, but instead it would minimize conflicts. 

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