Some time during the night of January 5th, signs in the yards of several homes in our Clintonville neighborhood were destroyed by being painted with red spray paint,or ripped from the ground ,then incinerated in our driveways.Each sign that was destroyed expressed messages such as,"Pray For Peace" or,"One People-World Peace."  

I would like to ask those people that participated in these bizarre acts of vandalism,why they didn't have the courage to ring my doorbell,look me in the eye,do the honorable thing and explain to me as a fellow citizen of the United States and the world,why they find notions such as world peace and tolerance for people of other cultures and beliefs so threatening and abhorrent? I would also ask them to consider the frightening analogy between their own irrational,violent acts,and those that are currently being perpetrated as acts of warfare in many parts of our contemporary world.  

Is it naive to expect honor,and rational discourse from those that engage fear as a drug of choice? Perhaps,but the process of seeking a peaceful means for the world, has to begin now,and at everyone's own front door.  

Sincerely,
Scot S. Gassen