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About 70 people gathered Wednesday outside the War Memorial building for a candlelight vigil, one of several held across the nation and spurred by Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq. She has drawn widespread attention for the anti-war demonstration she has been staging near President Bush's ranch in Texas this month.
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New Jerseyans show support for mother of slain soldier
The Newsday article describes a vigil in Trenton. Here in Jersey City we had roughly fifty folks ranging from kids too young to hold candles to grandparents with snow white hair and canes, gathering around the fountain in Van Vorst Park. Across the river in Manhattan there were many more vigils, at Ground Zero, at Wall Street and no doubt up the length of the island.
And across the length and breadth of the country this evening, thousands and thousands of candles flickered in the wind burning in solidarity with Cindy Sheehan. The flames may not yet stop a war, but it is a start.