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Mother Cindy keeps vigil
(Pravda Ru )
Updated: 2005-08-18 15:59
More and more people suffered from the war in Iraq and simply sympathizers,
those not indifferent to other people锟斤拷s tragedies, gather at Bush锟斤拷s ranch to
join Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq in 2004.
![Nara Takakawa, left, and Sharon Reilly, right, hold candles and a sign with a message to President Bush, during a silent candlelight vigil in support of Cindy Sheehan, the mother of soldier Casey Sheehan. The vigil took place in Honolulu, Hawaii, Wednesday, August 17, 2005. [AP Photo]](xin_15080218160245515241.jpg)
Nara Takakawa,
left, and Sharon Reilly, right, hold candles and a sign with a message to
President Bush, during a silent candlelight vigil in support of Cindy
Sheehan, the mother of soldier Casey Sheehan. The vigil took place in
Honolulu, Hawaii, Wednesday, August 17, 2005. [AP
Photo] |
More than 1,600 vigils were planned Wednesday from coast to coast by liberal
advocacy groups MoveOn.org Political Action, True Majority and Democracy for
America. A large vigil was also planned in Paris.
As the sun set in Crawford, about 200 protesters lit candles and gathered
around a wooden, flag-draped coffin at Sheehan锟斤拷s growing camp, about a mile from
the Bush ranch, AP reports.
锟斤拷For the more than 1,800 who have come home this way in flag-draped coffins,
each one ... was a son or a daughter, not cannon fodder to be used so
recklessly,锟斤拷 Sheehan told the crowd.
The vigils were urged by Cindy Sheehan, who has become the icon of the
anti-war movement since she started a protest Aug. 6 in memory of her son Casey,
who died in Iraq last year.
Sheehan says she will remain outside the president锟斤拷s ranch until he meets
with her and other grieving families, or until his monthlong vacation there
ends.
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