Anti-War Protests Spill Into Second Day as Demonstrators Mark Invasion's A

By Michael Kunzelman
Associated Press Writer

BOSTON (AP) - Crowds of anti-war demonstrators gathered in communities scattered across the nation Sunday to protest the war in Iraq, a day after larger protests in dozens of other cities on the second anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion.
In Boston, Shalom Keller told about 2,000 protesters that he celebrated his 21st birthday in Iraq a day before his Army unit joined the first wave of the invasion.

"Instead of getting drunk, I was invading a country that had done me no wrong," Keller told the crowd on the Boston Common.

But others, such as Ginny Corkery, whose Army captain son just returned from Iraq, did not share protesters' view.

"I don't believe we should be policing the world, but there was a major injustice being done to the people over there in Iraq. Our troops were over there for a reason - to free people," she said.

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