IF YOU TAKE THE TIME TO LOOK AT THE PITURE YOU WOULD SEE THE GRASS IS NOT ACTUALLY BURNED. IT IS LONGER AND GREENER THAN THE REST OF THE LAWN. I WORK FOR A LAWN COMPANY AND THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE GRASS GROW THAT LONG THAT QUICK IS DIVINE INTERVENTION. THERE IS NO PRODUCT THAT CAN MAKE GRASS FROW THAT QUICK, IF THERE IS THE PERSON WHO INVENTED IT WOULD BE VERY VERY RICH!! HOWEVER THERE IS PRODUCT THAT YOU CAN USE TO DYE THE GRASS GREEN.
PEACE AND LOVE PEOPLE!!

Our organization, Communities of Peace Foundation,(www.communitiesofpeace.org) was the sponsor of the event on Sunday, March 25th on the US Capitol lawn. We are not anti-war activists, or anti-anything; we are for peace. In fact, the talks that we gave were just about that.

In addition to James Twyman's songs for peace, we showed our children's peace quilt on the lawn, which we had done at least three times before. For a short period of about 15 minutes, we reconfigured it in the shape of the peace symbol, then linked hands, circled it, and prayed for "peace on earth." (That peace quilt was started by an 8-year old at our peace event at the Pentagon on September 22, 2000, where we were dedicating a peace pole for the Pentagon chapel. It still stands in the Pentagon today, in what is now the meditation room.)

The next day, I received a call from the Capitol Police, asking what we had done with a peace symbol, and insisting that we must have used fertilizer, because there was an indelible symbol on the lawn where the grass was definitely greener, in the form of a peace symbol, where we were showing our Children's peace cloth. They also indicated that there was a possibility that we could be charged to bring the grass back to its normal status.

At no point did we add fertilizer (other than the "fertilizer" of loving prayers for peace. I have observed many personal "miracles" happen around this Children's quilt, which contains the pure, innocent love of children, and their wishes for "peace on earth." It is about 1/3 mile long, containing sections from children in 25 countries and 22 US states.

Gerry Eitner
president
Communities of Peace Foundation

I know the people who ran this and it wasn't anti-war and it was not a protest. It was simply for peace and not anti-anything. To suggest they had fertilizer is truly paranoid but funny. Thanks!

Here are some thoughts from someone (me) who is acquainted with some of the principles in this story.

Check the reports. What is suggested by the Capitol Police is simply not realistic. It is virtually impossible for fertilizer to have been used to cause this effect.

Here's Why:
1) Theory one: Fertilizer was spread on the cloth:

There is nothing on the market that will cause this effect so quickly (the next day), so it is out of the question that someone placed fertilizer on the cloth to cause this.

2) Theory two: Someone sprinkled fertilizer at some earlier date:

The area where this took place is not normally open to the public. It is heavily guarded, and for someone to walk around on it and sprinkle fertilizer (a known explosive) without being observed seems very unlikely. To lay it out in a perfect pattern and in uniform swaths (see the photos http://www.emissaryoflight.com/_.aspx?content=Peace_Sign ) without marks and without being observed seems very very very unlikely.

On top of that, to time the application so perfectly so that the pattern would not be apparent on the lawn before the cloth was laid down, but was apparent the very next morning would require expert planning and luck so perfect that it takes that theory beyond any shred of credibility.

My background is in science, and the only reasonable natural explanation I can come up with is that in the heat of the day, the cloth retained moisture beneath it and perhaps caused a bit of a greenhouse effect. I have many times removed a tarp from an area outdoors and noticed greener grass and weeds below. Of course it is still remarkable that the effect happened after such a short period of coverage. Was the grass watered shortly before exacerbating the effect?

While this may not be the miracle that some would like to attribute to it is still one of those rare accidents that is very much worth taking note of. It is a poignant symbol at an interesting time in history. Let's hope the investigators come to terms with the reality of what took place, drop the reflex cynicism in lieu of good logic, and make the appropriate apologies.

I was there on Sunday, helping to lay out the Children's Cloth. We were most definately not protesting the war, or anything else. We were promoting PEACE through a beatiful cloth made by children with their wishes of peace. I attest first hand that no fertilizer nor anything else was "sprinkled".

Photo please! Please ---- let's see a picture. AND --- let's do this all over our great land. Imagine fertilizer-inspired peace symbols on public lands everywhere!

Jamie,
you might be a scientist but the West front of the "Peoples House" has NEVER been closed to the public except for minutes at a time and very very seldom. Everything else you said was possible.