United for Peace & Justice Anti War March

United for Peace & Justice Anti-War March
September 24, 2005
Washington, D.C.

Randy Bastian, 20, from Freeport, Illinois, marches with Veterans Against the Iraq War. Himself not a veteran, he marched with his sister’s boyfriend, a U.S. Marine Corps vet who served from 1985-1991.

Tiffany Burns, from Los Angeles, leads the “Code Pink” contingent in a chant saying, “This is what Democracy looks like.”

Ryan Moore, 20, from Des Plains, IL, protests with permanent marker.

Iraq Veterans Against the War

Gold Star Families for Peace

Streetside debate that goes nowhere: Approximately 200 counter-protesters lined one block of Pennsylvania Avenue, separated from the march by metal barriers and a line of police standing with about a five-foot gap between each of them. Here, a war protestor, right, argues briefly with a counter-protester.

Poet Rick Burnley

I’’m a patriot, as you can see,
Got the ‘‘Merican flag on my SUV,
And everything I need to know,
I get from the Limbaugh and O’’Reilly show.

I don’’t waste time readin’’ the papers,
That’’s what liberals do.
I get my news predigested,
I don’’t even have to chew…

Cindy Sheehan, mother of humvee mechanic Army Specialist Casey Sheehan who was killed in Iraq, arrives at Camp Casey for a reunion.

Sheehan, who camped for a month outside President Bush’s Crawford residence to demand answers about the war, greets supporters at “Camp Casey DC.” Supporters of the original camp packed the camp and traveled the country to spread their message, winding up their bus trips in DC, where the camp was recreated.

On her birthday this year, June 10, Sheehan received this tattoo to commemorate her late son.

On his birthday last year, Carlos Arredondo was waiting with his phone in his yard for a celebratory phone call from his son, Alex, who was serving in Iraq. Instead of a phone call, Carlos watched a government van with three marines pull up to his house. Distraught with the news that Alex was killed in Iraq earlier that day, Carlos set fire to the government van, attempting to kill himself. Carlos said about his son, “He was my American Dream.”

Camp Casey DC at dusk

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