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Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:00:02 GMTE-mail | Print2 arrested at Iraq war protest at military recruiting center
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Two people were arrested Wednesday during a protest marking the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq.
Eleven protesters with Des Moines Catholic Workers carried signs and a mock coffin draped with an American flag into the hallway of the Armed Forces Career Center, a Des Moines recruiting office.
Officials at the center called police and asked the protesters to leave.
Edward Bloomer, 61, and Kirk Brown, 25, both of Des Moines, were arrested for trespassing and taken to jail.
Protester Mona Shaw of Iowa City said she believes it’s her moral obligation to stand up against the war.
‘’I was raised that when you saw something wrong happening, you should get involved to stop it,’’ said Shaw, who has a sister in the Navy.
Shaw said her sister is about to be deployed on her fifth tour to Iraq.
‘’This is personal for me,’’ Shaw said. ‘’I’ve stood at funerals with flag drawn coffins.’’
‘’She tells me she’s very proud of me,’’ Shaw said of her sister. ‘’She says ‘You go. You stop this ... thing.’’
Shaw said protesting at a military recruitment center was appropriate.
‘’It makes me feel sad because people are being assigned a horrible task, to an enterprise, where there’s a high chance they’re going to be killed,’’ she said. ‘’I’m here to keep working class kids from getting killed.’’
Protester Reetzi Hughes, 14, of Des Moines, said too many young people are dying in the war. She thinks military recruiters are starting too young in contacting high school students.
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