I’m 10 years old. I support Ukraine by going to local protests at the lift bridge with my dad and my younger brothers every Sunday. Most of the time it’s all fine. There are hundreds of people that support Ukraine, and during protests, there are people that honk and wave every week. Besides us, there are some other young children and very old people that come to the protests. And though many people honk and wave every week, once in a while, there would be one person or more that would be shouting and cursing at the protest while there were kids like me around. And something my dad said was that “they are bad people with bad words, bad ideas, and bad habits.”

If people have their own opinion, instead of shouting swears out their car window when they drive past, while getting interrupted by other sounds, like the cars driving past, you can barely hear what they are saying. They should express their opinion by sending a letter to the editor. They can share any “logical” sense here, to let the public see their opinion if they want us to know so badly. They can tell us who they are. But if they support Putin, why express it immaturely, in front of kids? What Russia is doing is sinful, and there is not a single reasonable explanation to support him that I can think of. That is why we go to the protests, so we can express our opinion clearly. There are many different ways to communicate your opinion, but swearing is a horrendous way to do it.

Kaitlyn Loosemore

Hancock