Did you people not pay attention yesterday? (GI's and Vets?)

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Who were at the Anti-War Rally?

An Appeal for Redress from the War in Iraq
http://www.appealforredress.org/

Veterans Working Together For Peace and Justice Through Non Violence. Wage Peace!
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/

Iraq Veterans Against the War
http://www.ivaw.org/

Support the Troops that refuse to fight
http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/

Those military people spoke yesterday, against the war.

I know many of you question ANSWER. But these brave men and women don't support the war and you need to support them, and the MSM needs to report on their opinions, comments, and brave duty.

[TheConstantGardener]

1. They're too busy redbaiting!

infighting is more fun than trying to end this war I guess.

[halobeam]

2. k and r

[w8liftinglady]

3. I'll K and R,too..I paid attention.

[tnlefty]

4. Another R and thanks for these links!

:hi: :kick:

[midnight]

5. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Can I access their

speaches via these threads above? I will try them.

[Kurovski]

6. K&R.

It seems that on the days of large protests, we can count on lesser events to crowd out the focus.

It's odd.

[eShirl]

7. k&r

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8. Photo from the March: Iraq Veterans Against the War

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9. VillageVoice: Veterans, Grieving Families Give Somber Mood to Iraq War Protest

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Among the throngs was a contingent of about 50 members of Iraq Veterans Against the War, many dressed in camo jackets. “We’re not against the soldiers, we’re against the war!” they chanted.

At the front of the group was 25-year-old Tomas Young, who took a bullet in the same battle in Sadr City where Sheehan’s son Casey was killed. Young is now paralyzed from the chest down.

Young says he never wanted to go to Iraq; he enlisted two days after 9-11 because he wanted to hunt down terrorists in Afghanistan. Last month, he joined the pilgrimage to Crawford to ask Bush why he sent him to fight the wrong war. “Bush said he wouldn’t meet with Cindy because he’d already met with her in 2004,” Young says. “I figured my life has been severely impacted. So I wanted to hear his excuse about not meeting with me.”

The Iraq vets were followed by about three dozen members of Gold Star Families for Peace, who marched bearing laminated photographs of their fallen loved ones. In contrast to the buoyant, celebratory feeling in the rest of the crowd, the mood here was determined and grave. “It’s hard to get into the joyousness of it all,” shrugged Steve DeFord of Oregon, watching a rather militant group of Bread and Puppet activists bang drums and stage a mock die-in with lumpy cardboard shapes that were meant to represent dead Iraqi civilians.

“I’m proud of each and everyone of these people who came out here today,” said DeFord, whose son Douglas was killed by a roadside bomb a year ago Sunday. “It’s beyond my expectation, but it’s too late for me,” he said with tears in his eyes.

DeFord and the other grieving parents were among some 250 military family members who marched on Saturday. Many said they had no patience for President Bush’s claim that to pull out now would mean their loved ones died in vain. “Twenty thousand more people could die and it wouldn’t give my son’s life any more meaning,” said Diane Santoriello of Pittsburgh, whose son, First Lt. Neil Santoriello, was killed by when a bomb exploded under his tank while patrolling in Iraq. “I think the situation is out of control and we’re making things worse.”

Several blocks away, Robin Godrey and his group West Virginia Patriots for Peace marched with a series of large banners bearing the names and dates for all 1,906 servicemen who have died since the war began. “Our local paper runs the body count on the front page every day,” said Godfrey, a lawyer whose own son did a year’s tour with the Army in Iraq. Over the past year, Godfrey says his group has grown to 1,000 members. “We’ve got Republicans and Democrats. They just can’t label us as one thing.”


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