Today in my primary music classes we talked about music as a force for peace.  In broad, simplified strokes we talked about The Singing Revolution in Estonia and the Prayer of the Mothers associated with the Women Wage Peace movement in the Middle East.  We talked about how war is sometimes a function of greed, where one country wants what another country has.  And I saw before me a sea of confused and inquisitive faces, posing the most innocent, most poignant questions:

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