Posted by joel, a resident of Stanford, on Mar 25, 2008 at 12:22 pm

A national tour featuring decorated veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan won't be stopping at Forest Lake Area High School today as planned, after school leaders abruptly canceled the visit.

Steve Massey, the school principal, said the decision to cancel was prompted by concerns that the event was becoming political rather than educational and therefore was not suitable for a public school.

Posted by No to PPJC, a resident of the Greenmeadow neighborhood, on Mar 25, 2008 at 12:52 pm

Either the reporter who wrote the original story announcing this event misled us or the organizer, PPJC, did:

Web Link

There were no 4000 candles apparently-in fact if you look at oneo fth epictures posted it appears that they could not even get all of the paltry number of candles there lit.

Some show of respect for our troops who have given their lives.

What else have been misled about by these organizations?

Posted by Thank Our Lucky Stars For The Internet, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Mar 26, 2008 at 8:44 am

> He said many people are "clueless on

> what is going on in Iraq."

The US Military provides an excellent web-based news source of its activities and basic data--like casualty counts:

Web Link

Lots of pictures, video and audio--all anyone has to do is "log on" to find out what's happening in the many places around the world that our brave men and women are serving the folks back home, and helping to pass the flame of democracy to those who yearn to be free.

Don't expect to get much information from the guy who uttered the almost meaningless sentiment above--go to the source and educate your self.

Posted by perspective, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Mar 26, 2008 at 10:42 am

the most clueless are those who read and listen only to the pap fed them by the mainstream media.

please note: Iraq is hardly mentioned in the news now..gosh, what could that mean?