Last Wednesday night, over 1,600 vigils, including three in Santa Monica, were held across the country in support of Cindy Sheehan’s vigil outside President Bush’s Crawford, Texas ranch in memory of her soldier son who was killed in Iraq. Shown here: (top) Cindy Sheehan, her daughter and Tim Goodrich, co-founder of Iraq Veterans Against the War, in Santa Monica for the October, 2004 screening of The Ground Truth, a documentary about veterans. (center) Vigil at Saint Monica’s statue on Ocean Avenue, and (bottom) vigil at the Third Street Promenade. The third local vigil was held in Clover Park.
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