Love, Not War

I’ve been involved with speaking to many of the local high schools. I’ve spoken at my Alma Mater, Sydney Academy, at Mount Munroe Junior High, for nine years I’ve been speaking to the Eskasoni Native School, elementary school. And I think always I say to them that there was a message a long time ago that said, “Peace on earth to men of good will” and if our young people could just keep that in their minds there’d never be war. And that’s a message that I would give to any high school, junior high school or elementary school student. I tell them every year when I speak at Eskasoni Elementary School and I ask them to say yes when I tell them, I want you to leave here, the first you do is go home and hug your mother and father and tell them you love them, and as long as we think that way and speak that way, there’s no place for war, the atmosphere is love.