not even close, even nursing home residents can get out more troops for an anti-war sign waving than our free republic warriors can get out for a pro-war 'rally'...
Published on Saturday, February 1, 2003 by the Marin Independent Journal (California)
Mill Valley Seniors Stage Protest for Peace
by Tad Whitaker
Some residents of Mill Valley's Redwoods Retirement Center feel President Bush is leading the country into war and they demonstrated yesterday - using canes, walkers and wheelchairs - to let him know they want no part of it.
"He doesn't tell us what's going on," said Nora Boskoff, 84, organizer of a curbside demonstration yesterday outside the nursing home on Camino Alto.
"It's becoming like (Soviet) Russia or (Nazi) Germany."
PROTEST: Mabre Krueger, 88, makes her way yesterday to the corner of Camino Alto and Miller Avenue for an anti-war protest organized by a group of residents from The Redwoods retirement community. Dozens of protesters attended the demonstration, many using canes, walkers and wheelchairs as they stood by the roadside waving signs and singing protest songs.
(Photo/Jeff Vendsel)
Last week, she decided the time had come to start the nursing home's first peace group and anti-war demonstration. Little did she know that more than 80 other residents would be there to support her.
"We didn't expect this many people," she said.
One of those who joined Boscoff was Leonard Prossor, 87, who spent six years in North Africa and Italy during WWII while serving in the British army.
"Many of these people have experienced war," he said, gesturing toward the demonstrators.
He said the Bush Administration doesn't know what it's inflicting on the world because so few of them actually experienced the mayhem of war.
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