Marching Because Our Soldiers Can't
by Jimmy Breslin

The first thing she did when she took over carrying the casket was to put a hand on the flag covering it, for the casket was only cardboard and the flag fluttered and she patted it down and then tucked it underneath.

This was at yesterday's massive protest against Bush and the war, a march whose size and seriousness were stunning.

Sarah Kruger and her brother were walking along in the center of the march, and they were going by these rows of flag-draped caskets made for the parade by a guy in Williamsburg who doesn't like death. There were hundreds of these caskets being carried in South American heat up Seventh Avenue. At 34th Street, before the march turned downtown, a man carrying one end of the casket looked at Sarah Kruger, this slim 20-year-old college student, and said, mopping his face with one hand, "Could you give us a hand? I'm a little tired."

"Sure," she said.

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