Students at Morse High School in Skyline Hills held a rally Friday – the 14th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks – to promote community peace-building.
The event, which was co-sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based Peace Alliance, opened with a moment of silence for the victims of 9/11.
Peace Alliance President Bob Baskin said while many of the students were too young to remember the attacks, the day was still an important opportunity to talk about peace.
“Unfortunately, too many of these kids reach for a weapon, a gun, a knife, or react in a violent way to being confronted with a potentially violent situation,” he said. “I’m here to tell them there’s a better way.”
Marwin Solis, a senior at Morse High and one of the rally’s student organizers, said peace-building is especially important for his generation.
“If we were thinking more about stuff like peace and non-violence, it would in turn create a society in which violence, corruption, all that, isn’t a familiar sight," he said.
