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...father of Thomas J. Zapp, a Marine lance corporal killed near Fallujah on Nov. 8, 2004, made a pilgrimage from Richmond, Texas, to Crawford last week. He came to see Cindy Sheehan, not President Bush. "I want to sit down and talk to her," explains Zapp. "She says that a lot of people don't understand what's she's been through. Well, I do." That would probably be where their understanding ends. When Zapp learned of his son's death, it only strengthened his robust support for the war. "It made me prouder to be an American," he says...
...since her son Corporal Travis Bradach-Nall, 21, was killed clearing land mines, Bradach tried to honor his memory by tamping down her anger. After all, her son had volunteered for the extra tour that ended up being his last, and she wanted to respect that commitment. But Cindy Sheehan's public protest has given Bradach confidence in expressing outrage. "Soldiers are being killed, and no progress is being made," she says. "We need to call [the troops] home." Bradach is planning to travel from her Portland, Ore., residence to Crawford this week to join Sheehan, and she is certain...
...SHEEHAN IS DISHONORING HER SON BY DEPICTING AMERICA SO NEGATIVELY...
Wednesday's rains are gone, now, and Cindy Sheehan, who's been ensconced outside President Bush's ranch since last weekend protesting what she calls the needless death of her son in Iraq, shades her eyes as she sits on the roadside along Prairie Chapel Ranch Road. She's doing two interviews simultaneously, one on her cell phone and another with a reporter on the scene. Sheehan is surrounded by some 60 supporters and a small roadside field of white crosses. Signs saying "Jesus Wept," "Bush: Meet with Cindy" and "Iraq = Arabic for Vietnam" line the country road, along with...
...protestors are supplied with large jugs of water and iced tea by a volunteer shuttle service based at the Crawford Peace House, in this tiny Texas town some 20 miles south of Waco. Tracy Sivacek, the 40-year-old wife of an Army Apache helicopter pilot, delivers water to Sheehan's busy outpost. Sivacek left behind her husband and disabled five-year-old son on Monday and drove nonstop from Fort Rucker, Alabama to Crawford, pausing only to sleep in a Waffle House parking lot. Her husband served one tour in Iraq and, she says, he has not been handling...