Over the next few weeks, teachers took up the project with their students, individuals brought cards to their churches, and "Write a Peace Card to President Obama" mailboxes were put in shops and gathering places. One class even created handmade valentines for the President!
      Bundles of cards were tied with ribbons and tagged to show their origin — individual schools, the Inaugural Ball, the library, and more. Included in the box were the valentines, the Leader article about this project, a set of PTPM Peace on Earth cards, and a poster of the 2008 Imagine Peace Community Portrait. The box itself was decorated with a playful Port Townsend Peace Train, its cars labeled with issues of concern such as economy, healthcare, education, Constitutional rights,

and, of course, peace!
     Cards featured below are just a sampling of the more than 400 messages now at the White House. Those displayed are shared with permission, and where requested, last names or contact info has been deleted.
      Special thanks to all the teachers and staff who helped make this such a great project, to the children and parents whose excitement added much joy and delight, to The Leader, to the shops that displayed mailboxes, to others who helped along the way, and most especially to everyone— young and old—who wrote peace cards to our President.