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Lourey makes powerful witness

August 24, 2005

Thirty-five years ago, the antiwar movement was typified by a long-haired, scruffy young male of draftable age, burning his draft card.

A new antiwar movement is being born this summer on a Texas roadside. It presents a much different face - feminine, older, wiser, and filled with grief and righteous indignation. The face is that of mothers who lost sons and daughters in Iraq, first Cindy Sheehan of California, and now more, including Minnesota state Sen. Becky Lourey...

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