http://www.canarsiedigest.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18144929&BRD=2384&PAG=461&dept_id=560112&rfi=6 ‘No more war!’ Brooklyn kids declareA cadre of enthusiastic youngsters carrying homemade banners and balloons called for an end to the Iraq war this weekend in a kid-centric “peace parade” stretching from the playgrounds of Carroll Park to the arch at Grand Army Plaza.
“Money for schools, not for war,” the children shouted from their Razor scooters and inline skates as they moved up Union Street. “Impeach Bush.”
Adults from Midwood to Park Slope including members of Brooklyn Parents for Peace, First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn, the New York State Green Party and a drum corps called The Himalayas accompanied the kids, filling three-quarters of the block between Smith Street and 3rd Avenue at the outset of the march.
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A member of Iraq War Veterans Against the War, Bouthillette said he was studying at the naval academy when war broke out and was later stationed on a destroyer in the Arabian Gulf where three of his shipmates were killed by suicide bombers.
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One of the hardest things he’s ever had to come to grips with, Bouthillette revealed was, “coming to believe” that George Bush – his commander-in-chief – had lied to him about the war.
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