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Iraq war veteran Paul Melling rests his weary feet in Cottage Grove after hours of marching for peace.

photo by: Anita Weier/The Capital Times

Iraq war veteran Paul Melling rests his weary feet in Cottage Grove after hours of marching for peace.

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Iraq war veteran Paul Melling rests his weary feet in Cottage Grove after hours of marching for peace.
John Brollier shows his goal in Cottage Grove.
Paul Melling, Mary Dean and Helene Hedberg reach Cottage Grove, another way station in a long march for peace.
Dan Pearson (from left), Jim Marchewka and Josh Bray reach Cottage Grove during the Witness Against War march.
The marchers reach the home of Dennis and Karen Coyier in Cottage Grove, where their support bus was waiting.
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Peace marchers go the distance to oppose Iraq war

By  Anita Weier  —
7/26/2008 6:14 pm

Helene Hedberg is marching through much of Wisconsin to oppose the Iraq war. But first she had to fly to Chicago -- from Sweden. Hedberg helps Iraqi refugee children in Stockholm and got to know march organizer Kathy Kelly during a human rights conference in Sweden. So when she heard from Kelly that Voices for Creative Nonviolence was organizing a march from Chicago to St. Paul, Minn., to arrive Aug. 31 in time for the Republican National Convention, Hedberg decided she had to participate.

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