Families Angered by Crosses at War Protest [View All]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/24/AR2005082400218.html

I'm only posting this to share with DU what WaPo is up to.


By ANGELA K. BROWN
The Associated Press
Wednesday, August 24, 2005; 4:16 AM

CRAWFORD, Texas -- Nearly 600 white wooden crosses in perfectly straight rows stretch down the narrow road leading to President Bush's ranch, a sea of names in the grassy ditch. Lt. Seth Dvorin. Sgt. David W. Johnson. Daniel Torres. Casey Sheehan.

Hundreds of anti-war demonstrators have spent time at the memorial the past two weeks, pausing to wipe away tears or place an American flag by a cross as they walk slowly down the road.

To some relatives of the fallen U.S. soldiers, however, it isn't a tribute to heroes but a political statement by liberal groups with whom they disagree.

Sherry Orlando, a spokeswoman at Fort Campbell, Ky., said she doesn't want her husband, who was killed in Iraq in 2003, to be used "for someone's political agenda."

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