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TAMPA, Fla. - On a recent Sunday, scores of people who have never met Terri Schiavo in person gathered in a park to mark her 41st birthday and another year of life.
They celebrated with a birthday cake and a cookout, some traveling from as far as Iowa and Nebraska. A priest prayed for her and a musician who has written songs in her honor traveled from California to perform.
For those strangers gathered with her family, the event caps another remarkable year of legal wrangling that has kept Schiavo, severely brain damaged since 1990, alive and at the center of a fierce court battle.
Cheryl Ford, a former nurse turned Schiavo activist who organized the party, the fight for Terri Schiavo has a larger implications for the rights of the disabled.

Legal battle over Terri Schiavo survives another year

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