America Stands with Cindy, Vigil at the White House
Gale Goodwin, above, was visiting Washington from Greenville, SC. She and a friend from high school attended the vigil at the White House. The two protested together against the Vietnam war three decades earlier. In recent years she has taken up protest against the war in Iraq. “I’ve been trying to stop this,” she said.
Several families were part of the crowd at the vigil. MoveOn.org volunteers said the vigil drew over 400 people, more than eight times what they originally expected. The vigil took place with four days of planning and promotion.
Nat Parry lights his candle from Vicky Bram (names via Reuters).
Right, Charles Stanford of Washington for three months has been attending two vigils each week at the White House, he said. He updates the number of US deaths in the Iraqi war on his protest sign. Today the count reads “01858.”
Spc. Kevin Pannell spoke to people in a counter-protest area where I counted about a dozen protesters representing Free Republic.com. The Associated Press reports Mr. Pannell’s views on the vigil.
“If they don’t want to support it, they don’t have to support it,” said Iraq war veteran Kevin Pannell, who had both legs amputated after a grenade attack last year in Baghdad. “That’s the reason I lost my legs.”
Vicky Bram
A board chronologically lists the names of service members who have died in the Iraq war, with an overlaying question, “How many more of our children must die?”
Erica Madris from Houston, TX, continued about fifteen minutes after the larger protest ended, making her own direct protest. She moved to Washington recently to “get closer to somewhere I can agitate.”
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