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Letter: Trip to Camp Casey, August 2005

By Scott Rutherford  Posted 09/05/2005

HANCOCK -- Scott Rutherford of Hancock reports on the trip he and Vern Simula made in August to meet Cindy Sheehan in Crawford, Texas. "We wanted to learn more about how she was reviving the anti-war movement and find out how we could help her," Rutherford writes. Describing the enthusiastic spirit at Camp Casey, named for Cindy's son, a soldier killed in Iraq, Rutherford notes Cindy has emerged as the anti-war movement's leading spokesperson and has inspired other "Camp Caseys" all over the country, where people are holding vigils and mobilizing bus trips to Washington for the Sept. 24 March on Washington. more

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