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War Protesters Follow Bush to Maine

700 March Near the Site of a First-Family Gathering in Kennebunkport

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 27, 2006; Page A04

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine, Aug. 26 -- At every wedding, it seems, something happens not according to plan. Expect the unexpected, planners warn. But how many brides and grooms expect a peace protest?

That is what happens when the president shows up for the ceremony in the midst of a polarizing war. About 700 demonstrators marched past the seaside church where President Bush's second cousin was to be married Saturday and then up to the checkpoint guarding the family summer compound to protest the war in Iraq.

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Jeannine White, 55, a schoolteacher from nearby Wells, had a yellow sign hanging around her neck that said, "Bring My Son Home." Her son, Staff Sgt. Ray White, 35, is serving in Baghdad, now in his second term, she said.

She had no compunction about spoiling the president's family time. "I think family is important," she said, accompanied by her husband, John, 59, a retired carpenter. "But do you know how many families the president has damaged and destroyed? You can't do that kind of stuff and not have some kind of consequence. This was an opportunity to be close to where he might actually be bothered to read or look at something."

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