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Friends In The News

I talked with a high school buddy about putting in a patio in my back yard Saturday night. Somehow, our talk turned to the war. In his youth, he was pretty liberal. On the phone, he was pretty conservative. I mentioned a planned peace protest outside the JDAM plant the next day. He wanted to go to a pro-war rally. I said I didn't know of any. So in today's paper, imagine my surprise when he's interviewed at a pro-war rally:

Among those who took part in the rally downtown were Dan and Besty O'Halloran of Rock Hill and their two small children. They had planned to take a family hike but came upon the rally downtown and decided to take part.

Dan O'Halloran, 43, said he wanted his children to see their parents "doing the right thing."

"I just felt very disgusted with seeing all the anti-Bush and anti-American demonstrations," he said. "The war is hard enough to explain (to children). That there are people who have such deep feelings against their country is even harder to explain."