authfriend wrote: > Follow-up on the Great Peace Sign Flap from today's NYTimes: > > November 29, 2006 > Pro-Peace Symbol Forces Win Battle in Colorado Town > By KIRK JOHNSON > > DENVER, Nov. 28 — Peace is fighting back in Pagosa Springs. > > Last week, a couple were threatened with fines of $25 a day by their > homeowners' association unless they removed a four-foot wreath shaped > like a peace symbol from the front of their house. > > The fines have been dropped, and the three-member board of the > association has resigned, according to an e-mail message sent to > residents on Monday. > > Two board members have disconnected their telephones, apparently to > escape the waves of callers asking what the board could have been > thinking, residents said. The third board member, with a working > phone, did not return a call for comment. > > In its original letter to the couple, Lisa Jensen and Bill Trimarco, > the association said some neighbors had found the peace symbol > politically "divisive." > > A board member later told a newspaper that he thought the familiar > circle with angled lines was also, perhaps, a sign of the devil. > > The peace symbol came to prominence in the late 1950s as the logo for > the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, a British antiwar group, > according to the group's Web site. It incorporates the semaphore flag > images for the letters in the group's name, a "D" atop an "N." > > Other people have said the upright line with arms angled down, > commonplace in the United States in the Vietnam War, especially, has > roots in the early Christian era, representing a twisted or broken > cross. > > Mr. Trimarco said he put up the wreath as a general symbol of peace > on earth, not as a commentary on the Iraq war or another political > statement. > > In any case, there are now more peace symbols in Pagosa Springs, a > town of 1,700 people 200 miles southwest of Denver, than probably > ever in its history. > > On Tuesday morning, 20 people marched through the center carrying > peace signs and then stomped a giant peace sign in the snow perhaps > 300 feet across on a soccer field, where it could be easily seen. > > "There's quite a few now in our subdivision in a show of support," > Mr. Trimarco said. > > A former president of the Loma Linda community, where Mr. Trimarco > lives, said Tuesday that he had stepped in to help form an interim > homeowners' association. > > The former president, Farrell C. Trask, described himself in a > telephone interview as a military veteran who would fight for > anyone's right to free speech, peace symbols included. > > Town Manager Mark Garcia said Pagosa Springs was building its own > peace wreath, too. Mr. Garcia said it would be finished by late > Tuesday and installed on a bell tower in the center of town. > > > Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company > > http://tinyurl.com/yfh8la I'm probably going to get a peace symbol wreath and put it on my door this Christmas. There is no homeowner's association where I live and it will probably result in more people in my neighborhood to be inspired to put them up. :)
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