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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.
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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