Group holds vigil for area’s war dead
A group of antiwar grandmothers gathered at Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center to call attention to the growing loss of lives in Iraq by reading the names of the dead, a day after the American military death toll in Iraq reached 3,000.
About 60 people from the group Grandmothers Against the War and their supporters read the names of the war dead from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut as tourists took their photos.
The vigil was one of more than 290 events planned in 46 U.S. cities, according to the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker-led social justice group.
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