Careful, he's military. He could rip both your arms off and leave no trace of violence.
You can't keep a good idea down. The peace sign circumnavigated the globe in 2 days before the internet. Or two weeks maybe. At any rate, if I remember rightly, the peace sign was invented by Bertrand Russell as a symbol for nuclear disarmament by combining naval semaphore code for N and D. How this relates to all the relevant things that V8 says I'll never know.