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Sunday, January 28, 2007
WASHINGTON — From across America, by the tens of thousands, they came to the nation's capital on a cold winter Saturday to demand an end to the war in Iraq.
They were joined by a half-dozen lawmakers, active-duty members of the military and celebrities, including Jane Fonda, an icon of the Vietnam protest movement.
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Hundreds from the Miami Valley added their voices to the collective call for peace.
"This is a place where I need to be today to stand with other people who are for life," said Jeannette Buehler, a Dayton nun who is a member of Sisters of the Precious Blood.
If President Bush won't heed the call for peace, then Congress must, the demonstrators demanded.
"We've got to insist that the Democrats elected in November to end the war find a collective backbone and stop Bush," said Margaret Knapke, a therapist from Dayton.
"I'm hoping we're at the point where Congress will pay attention" even if the president doesn't, said John Wagner, pastor of a United Methodist church in Hubert Heights.
Gil O'Bryan, a college student from Dayton, served two tours in Iraq as a Marine.
"I can't go on the Internet now without seeing the name of another friend who has been killed over there," he said.
"By my second trip over, I knew it was an unjust and illegal war and an oppression being forced on others. I decided I finally had to speak out."
