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This essay started out as a longer comment about the Peace Pole at the State Fair, but now I think that's too confining a place to put it.

I think my first introduction the idea of a Peace Pole came when my younger daughter found it suggested as a project in her Girl Scout handbook in 1993 or 1994 and became interested in pursuing it. She proposed that our church install and dedicate one. I came to learn that members of the social ministry committee had been considering this for some time (a few years, perhaps) but had never carried it fully through. This inquiry pushed them to complete the action, and my daughter selected the 4 languages that are on Grace Lutheran's Peace Pole