The War Moratorium (Formerly Iraq Moratorium)

I got off duty yesterday so I managed to make the 6th anniversary of the war march in Columbia. I had ordered the new banner for Military Families Speak Out, and somehow it came out bigger than expected so it ended up in the front of the march. There was a contingent from the Muslim center in town and I was glad to see them. One of the speakers was an Iraqi scholar, who spoke of what Iraq was like before the war and then what had happened. The military affiliated group had shrunk (VFP, IVAW, MFSO) but some of that may have been that there is so much going on today that it was just smaller. There was a much bigger turnout than I expected, actually. I figured that with Obama promising troop reductions that maybe people wouldn't be as interested, but I guess I was wrong.

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