>Apparently a staged event:
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>http://adloyada.typepad.com/adloyada/2006/07/how_to_demonize.html

I read the same info different and not as staged.

"UPDATE: Lisa's comment below appears to modify the story substantially from her account in her earlier online conversation which I extracted verbatim, as published on Sandmonkey's log. It seems the parents, and not the photographers, were encouraging the children to draw flags and doodles on the shells, not messages, which were written by the parents . But, as she says, the presence of twelve photographers all eager to take shots, no doubt contributed significantly to the fact that it happened."