67° M/SUNNY, PARADE OF 4,000 Iraq war veterans protest at convention
Last Modified: Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 3:41 a.m.
About 50 Iraq war veterans led a parade of thousands of demonstrators Wednesday afternoon in a boisterous march that was Denver's largest protest so far this week.
The Iraq Veterans Against the War group led the four-mile procession from the Denver Coliseum to the Pepsi Center, site of the Democratic National Convention, calling for Barack Obama to end U.S. involvement in Iraq and improve health care for veterans.
As many as 4,000 protesters took part, according to a police estimate.
The 50 veterans who led the demonstration included some in full military dress. As they marched along an industrial area far from downtown, they chanted, "My buddy's in the foxhole with a bullet in his head. . . . I called to get the medic, but he's already dead."
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