Objections to Antiwar Speaker Scuttle Event
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A Veterans Day event has been canceled after disagreements over whether an antiwar activist should speak at it.
Bill Mitchell, a co-founder with Cindy Sheehan of Gold Star Families for Peace, was scheduled to speak.
But some veterans objected, saying the day was supposed to be a nonpartisan memorial.
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