One Sky, One World. “Oh go fly a kite!”
Ah, I missed the global peace rally. Flying kites for peace is the latest craze and forty some miles west of me in Fitchburg, WI they joined the fun.
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Madison Captiol Times, flying kites in Fitchburg, WI (a southern surburb of Madison).
Around the world, in Germany and Hungary and Thailand and Africa and Russia and 30 other countries, similar scenes took place today. It was the 23rd annual World Kite Day, a celebration of peace also known as One Sky One World.
“Underneath all this fun our purpose is to fly kites for peace,” said Ray Blum, one of the event’s organizers and an avid kiter ever since his family gave him one when he retired from teaching seven years ago.
The winds ignore country borders, said Paul Fieber of Fitchburg, another organizer. “Maybe if the world leaders had flown kites together as kids, things would be different,” Fieber said wistfully.
He added that he realizes world politics are complex, and kites are not. “It’s just a simple toy,” he said.
Is this the war on terrorism in the Obama-era? If so, calling Mary Poppins to shovel quite a few spoonful of sugars into me!
The children in Afghanistan wouldn’t be flying any kites if not for the US Military and our allies. War is quite often the only answer.