http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04243/370081.stmAmong the stories to be told from yesterday's anti-Bush march, a roiling mass of invective that stretched two miles through Manhattan, was the small, poignant tale of Nora Williams.
She had come from her home in Ridgewood, N.J., short one friend.
"A woman I've known from childhood disinvited me to her daughter's wedding because of my 'Democratic leanings,' " Williams said. "And I'm not even a Democrat."
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In the clamor that buffeted Nora Williams, there was one other quiet woman. Celeste Zappala, of Philadelphia, carried a sign with a young man's photograph. It read, "We mourn Sgt. Sherwood Baker, killed in Baghdad April 26, 2004."
The name was familiar. Sherwood Baker was the first Pennsylvania national guardsman to die in the Iraq war.
"He's my son," Zappala said. "He was part of the security detail for the people who were looking for the weapons of mass destruction. He was blown off his Humvee." Amid the roar and whistles and loudspeakers and curses fouling the air, Zappala was hard to hear. Her voice was soft.