Reply #110: We took our two children to three of the rallies in DC [View All]

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Before and during the war. I really don't understand your post. The children enhance the experience and are often targeted by the media for their opinion of things. It really helps to hear a child's perspective of how the world is going. For the first rally we took the children to I had my son, who was then six, make his own sign and he chose to write, "No War on Iraq!" He had quite a good time carrying his sign and stating his opinion to radio stations and the FReepers who tried to shout us down. He and my daughter, who was just four at the time, gained a valuable lesson in Democracy and standing up for what is right.

I would never put my children in a position to be hurt and I just could not imagine fighting with cops with my children in tow. Also, the rallies that I have been to in DC have never been violent and the police have acted with a lot of professionalism and I wouldn't expect anything different this time around.