With the support of students and faculty at Nicolet Area Technical College, the Nicolet Peace Coalition started ringing our bell Wednesday morning at 7:30 AM and rang once a minute all day Wednesday until 4:00 PM. We then started again on Thursday morning and again rang all day. The overwhelming support we received from members of the student body and from members of the college faculty as they passed by and from those who volunteered for the half hour and one hour shifts were more than I had expected in this extremely conservative community. In all over the two days we had over twenty different bell ringers, including some that came up and asked for the opportunity to just take a partial shift between classes. My most memorable moment was on the first morning as I was standing there in 33 degree temperatures after about fifteen minutes and a veteran of this war asked me what I was doing. I explained our goal and he stuck out his hand and said he was glad to see that someone was willing to do it. I no longer felt the cold, and I remembered that those who gave up so much needed us to make others aware. I felt that if no one else showed up, that bell needed to keep ringing. During those two days, we only encountered a few negative comments concerning our presence and purpose.