Mother Cindy keeps vigil

More and more people suffered from theу war in Iraq and simply sympathizers, those not indifferent to other people’s tragedies, gather at Bush’s ranch to join Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq in 2004.

More than 1,600 vigils were planned Wednesday from coast to coast by liberal advocacy groups MoveOn.org Political Action, TrueMajority and Democracy for America. A large vigil was also planned in Paris.

As the sun set in Crawford, about 200 protesters lit candles and gathered around a wooden, flag-draped coffin at Sheehan’s growing camp, about a mile from the Bush ranch, AP reports.

“For the more than 1,800 who have come home this way in flag-draped coffins, each one ... was a son or a daughter, not cannon fodder to be used so recklessly,” Sheehan told the crowd.

The vigils were urged by Cindy Sheehan, who has become the icon of the anti-war movement since she started a protest Aug. 6 in memory of her son Casey, who died in Iraq last year.

Sheehan says she will remain outside the president’s ranch until he meets with her and other grieving families, or until his monthlong vacation there ends.