Mississippi: Peace rally in Tupelo protests war (Parent of 2 in Iraq, Vet)

N MS Daily Journal, Front Page

3/20/2006 3:49:20 PM
Daily Journal


BY EMILY LE COZ


Daily Journal


TUPELO - Republicans, Democrats and Green Party members alike spoke out against the war in Iraq during a 45-minute peace rally Sunday afternoon in Tupelo.

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Steven Haskins, a self-described Christian, conservative Republican from Endville, said he never supported the Iraq invasion and now decided to publicly protest the war. "I'm a veteran from the Vietnam era, and I thought maybe we'd learned our lesson from that war," he said. "But I guess not."

Another Republican, retired school teacher Nelson Fitts, said he supported the hunt for Osama bin Laden that led America into Afghanistan, but he never understood why the Bush administration went into Iraq. Fitts, from Pontotoc County, has a 20-year-old son and a 30-year-old nephew in Iraq and wants both to return home safely.

I have some friends up there. Hope they made it....

Definitely have to recommend this one! Thanks for the heads up!

Tupelo Mississippi....Did you know he had a twin brother who died at birth?

mystery The King is Dead: The King is Dead.

The book includes a BarBQ cook-off at Tupelo and an Elvis impersonator contest there. In the town (in the book) is a McDonald's whose walls are covered with Elvis memorabilia. There's all sorts of info about Elvis in the book, including the house and his twin.

Shankman also wrote a book laid in NOLA Now Let's Talk of Graves and a book about the Miss America contest She Walks in Beauty.