'Other' Berrigan Raises His Voice

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He's not the best known of the Berrigan boys -- Daniel and Philip hold that honor.

But Jerome Berrigan, 82, is no stranger to the protest business.

In town as part of the SOA Watch's attempt to close down the Western
Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, Berrigan found himself a comfortable
chair in an otherwise barren apartment near the staging area on Benning Road and
watched as speaker after speaker took the podium.

"This is my sixth trip down here," he said. "And is it just me or is the blare louder
than it's ever been?" He referred to Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA," which
rattled off the concrete walls of his room.

Berrigan, like his brothers, is no stranger to jails.
Though he has no intention of trespassing onto Fort
Benning this weekend, he was arrested Oct. 5 while
protesting in front of the USS Intrepid, now a floating
museum docked on the Hudson River in New York.