NOVEMBER 18,2004 THE COURIER 13


HONOR ROLL


 The following students
made the principal's honor
roll for the first nine-week
grading period at the listed
schools:

 Knights Elementary
 Grade 1 Sydnee Dorofy, Alyssa
Suarez, Taylor Watkins and Gabrielle
Williamson.
 Grade 2- McKenzie Greene, Taylor
Kelly, Leah Martin, Megan Shulmister,
Rebecca Moore, Jonathan Cain, Payton
Roberts and Kaitlynne Fincher.
 Grade 3 Savannah Browning, Lexi
Ham, Haley Grissom, Josh Maraman, TJ.
McNamee and Paytyn Wilson.
 Grade 4 Kaila McKee, Kellee Brown,
Kade Greene, Gianna Edmunds, Ashley


Murray, Jose Armijo, Bobbi High, Brooke
Shaffer, Isabella Bautista, Kyle Moore,
Lucas Garcia, Emily Bush and Susan
Weaver.
 Grade 5 Kenneth Floyd, Sarah Floyd,
Brandi Dilts, Austin Ham, Stephanie
Moore, Courtnie Ulrich. and Joey Cole-
man.

 Springhead Elementary
 Grade 3 Emily Govreau and Trey
Langston.
 Grade 4 Megan Rivieccio, Tanah
Tyoe, Taylor Morris, Tesla Morrison,
Jeneisha Kelly, Morgan Moody, Amanda
Watson and Hannah Boles.
 Grade 5 Kristen Lewis, Riley Andreu,
Maegan Calkins, Hali Talkington, Lindsey
Braden, Allana Evans, Brittany Straight,
Ashton Wilson and Clayton Todd.


MARRERO
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of such games, albeit they
were a lot less lifelike and
graphic. And though I was
much more partial to games
that had me behind the wheel
of a race car, I remember
conflicts with my parents
about them and how I just
couldn't fathom why they
disapproved. Lighten up, I
said. It's just a game.
 Maybe I'm just getting old
and more conservative (the
horror!), but I find it in poor
taste to be so excited about
war games when U.S. troops
are involved in a real guerilla
war.
 I think such games trivialize
the real violence and sacri-
fices that soldiers make.
 Even as I write this there is
a part of me telling myself to
lighten up. It is, after all, just a
game. But I now know that
there is a point in all of our


lives, whether we find out first
hand as servicemen and
women or take the easy way
out and become newspaper
editors, when we realize that
war is real and that the world
is a violent place.
 My question is, why add to
it? And why imitate it?
 I'm not proposing any
limits on such games. The
freedom to produce and play
them is what our armed
forces fight for.
 Parents need to do their
jobs, as mine did. Gamers I've
talked to say the games are an
escape from reality and the
horrors of real war are not lost
on them.
 But I ask those adults,
young and old, who play them
to stop for a moment the next
time they go to flip on the
switch of their Xbox.
 Use that imagination of


yours. You're in an alley in
Falluja. You can't see the
bullets coming at you, but you
can hear them. You might
catch glimpses of your
enemy, aiming right for you
before you duck behind a
wall.
 You might even have a
close call when an explosion
erupts nearby or a bullet
grazes your thigh. Worst of all,
you might have to run for
cover after retrieving a dead
comrade so he can be sent
home in a flag-draped coffin.
 Whatever your imagination
conjures up, just take a
moment before escaping into
that animated fantasy world
to consider the ugly reality in
which our soldiers now find
themselves.

 Tony Marrero is the editor
of The Courier.


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