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Thursday, May 06, 2004
Florence students engage in debate with Virginians - MARK COWLING, Tri-Valley Dispatch
"The kids asked each other what seniors anywhere ask each other," Veilleux said. But when they met for the second time last week, the mood was more businesslike and the questions and comments somewhat thornier. A girl wearing a greenish-yellow "Woodson Soccer" shirt in the front row in Fairfax argued, "We didn't go there (to Iraq) to build a democracy. We went there because of an imminent threat and to get rid of weapons of mass destruction. Democracy was an afterthought." Over in the back row in Florence, Carl Monize shot back, "It's our democracy that lets us choose to go there. ... How many people have enlisted so we can fight for our democracy? We're fighting for our own protection." The two classes, some 2,300 miles apart, talked face-to-face through the magic of Internet video and audio technology in their respective schools' distance learning classrooms.
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