Cindy Sheehan places flowers at a cross at Camp Casey next to President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas (AP)
U.S. Reaction to the War in Iraq Story aired: Thursday, August 25, 2005
Cindy Sheehan, peace activist, gold star mother, and lightning rod for both conservatives and liberals, has resumed her nearly month-long vigil outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas.
Sheehan, whose son was killed last year in Iraq, is demanding a second personal meeting with President Bush. Sheehan says she has come to feel that in her first private meeting the president last year, he wasn't respectful enough to her.
Holly Bailey, White House Correspondent for Newsweek Magazine reports from Texas on Sheehan's protest.
Baily describes how Sheehan supporters and "You don't speak for me Cindy" campaigners, who support the president's policy in Iraq, are camped on opposite sides of the street in Crawford.
Rachel Ascione, the sister of Marine corporal Ron Payne, who was killed in Afghanistan last year, has also met George Bush, and talks about her meeting with the president.
Ascione says President Bush "cried with me for a long time" and said he was sorry that her brother had been killed.
"My brother was the first Marine to die in Afghanistan," says Ascione "and he remembers, and that was a big thing for me."
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