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To: 10K a day who wrote (6613)	4/14/2006 12:10:07 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

War widow in town to counter protesters [Anti-Sheehan] Tribune-Herald ^ \| April 14, 2006 \| Dan Genz wacotrib.com In his final letter home before he died July 21 in a Baghdad hospital of wounds from an improvised explosive device, Navy corpsman Travis Youngblood asked his pregnant wife, Laura, to take care of his fellow soldiers in Iraq. The 27-year-old widow and mother of two young children flew to Waco on Wednesday to continue fulfilling what she sees as his last request to defend American soldiers against vocal critics of the Iraq war, including Cindy Sheehan, who launched her third peace protest in McLennan County this week. “I heard that Cindy was coming down again to protest, and I had enough,” Youngblood said. She was seven months pregnant with her daughter, Emma, when her husband died of wounds caused by an explosion during a battle outside of Fallujah. He was a medic attached to a Marine unit that suffered heavy casualties in July and August. Using the same attention-grabbing tactics that helped make a national icon out of Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Sadr City, Youngblood is targeting her rival’s turf. She crashed a Sheehan-led protest on the steps of the McLennan County Courthouse on Thursday morning, holding her husband’s photo and yelling to the group to applaud the troops. “Show their support, that’s all I ask,” Youngblood said. Sheehan became one of the most visible champions of the anti-war movement by protesting outside President Bush’s ranch near Crawford in August. Her presence elevated the profile of all families of those who died in Iraq, including those who say Sheehan is discrediting their loved ones. Youngblood will headline a rally outside the Yellow Rose store in Crawford today, once again making the small McLennan County town readily identified with President Bush ground zero for anti-war protests and counterprotests, expected to continue through the Easter weekend.