Aha, I see Cindy has a lawyer in her camp somewhere. I assumed the farmer fired into the air, and I don't have a good reason for the assumption. He could have easily fired into his own ground and stayed well within his legal rights.
The women in pink schedule every minute of Sheehan's day, allowing most reporters only five-minute interviews in order to squeeze in as many as possible. "She did 20 hours of interviews yesterday," one said Wednesday.
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Meanwhile, California. members of Veterans for Peace began erecting white crosses near Sheehan's tent and along the country lane to honor the fallen soldiers of the Iraq war.
Sheehan's camp, situated in a shallow roadside ditch, has grown almost by the hour. Her tent is flanked by those of two quiet-spoken war protestors: Ann Wright, a former State Department official who resigned in protest when Bush launched the Iraqi invasion in March, 2003, and Jim Goodnow, a Coast Guard veteran from Terlingua who favors tie-dyed shirts and doesn't mind washing his feet in muddy rain puddles.
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Her next-door neighbor, Larry Mattlage, spent part of Wednesday afternoon on his four-wheeler trying to prevent protestors from parking cars on the grassy easement in front of his goat farm (It's a 90-acre Angus farm).
"I understand these people's cause. I appreciate that," he said. But, he added, "Everybody just wants to know when it's going to be over. Are we going to have to put up with this all summer?" As the sun began to set, a red Coast Guard helicopter circled low near the encampment. But there wasn't much to see. Most protestors had gone to Crawford to eat or find a place to stay overnight.