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Mother Cindy keeps vigil
(Pravda Ru )
Updated: 2005-08-18 15:59

More and more people suffered from the war in Iraq and simply sympathizers, those not indifferent to other people��s tragedies, gather at Bush��s ranch to join Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq in 2004.

Nara Takakawa, left, and Sharon Reilly, right, hold candles and a sign with a message to President Bush, during a silent candlelight vigil in support of Cindy Sheehan, the mother of soldier Casey Sheehan. The vigil took place in Honolulu, Hawaii, Wednesday, August 17, 2005. [AP Photo]
Nara Takakawa, left, and Sharon Reilly, right, hold candles and a sign with a message to President Bush, during a silent candlelight vigil in support of Cindy Sheehan, the mother of soldier Casey Sheehan. The vigil took place in Honolulu, Hawaii, Wednesday, August 17, 2005. [AP Photo]

More than 1,600 vigils were planned Wednesday from coast to coast by liberal advocacy groups MoveOn.org Political Action, True Majority and Democracy for America. A large vigil was also planned in Paris.

As the sun set in Crawford, about 200 protesters lit candles and gathered around a wooden, flag-draped coffin at Sheehan��s growing camp, about a mile from the Bush ranch, AP reports.

��For the more than 1,800 who have come home this way in flag-draped coffins, each one ... was a son or a daughter, not cannon fodder to be used so recklessly,�� Sheehan told the crowd.

The vigils were urged by Cindy Sheehan, who has become the icon of the anti-war movement since she started a protest Aug. 6 in memory of her son Casey, who died in Iraq last year.

Sheehan says she will remain outside the president��s ranch until he meets with her and other grieving families, or until his monthlong vacation there ends.



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