Ann Helmke, Animating Director, peaceCENTER January 30, 1999

"Our city is famous throughout the world for a battle that took place just three blocks away at the Alamo. With the opening of this peaceCENTER, I pray with all my heart that someday people will know San Antonio not as a place where people died in war, but as a place where all people live in peace."

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