Camp Casey I and II

The first camp was pretty rough, on a triangular intersection in the public road leading to the ranch. It began growing immediately.

With the help of Arlington West, campers built a memorial to our soldiers sacrificed to this idiotic war. It stretched a long way along the road in both directions from the camp.

The L.A. volunteers contributed greatly to setting up this moving memorial. Ultimately there were 3-4 rows of crosses, decorated with flowers and flags, plus many pictures and names of the fallen.

Another view of the memorial, looking down the road. A realtor from Waco took it upon himself to run over many of the crosses with his pickup truck. That's supporting our troops.

After a neighbor of Camp Casey I fired a shotgun into the air, his cousin decided to offer a safer site on his private land, directly adjacent to Bush's ranch. This became Camp Casey II, with the same huge party tent that had been used at Republican fund raisers. The big bus was for Steve Earle, who left his honeymoon to play at Camp Casey II. Yes, the tent had a stage, with a sound system definitely loud enough to hear on The Ranch. That's the Secret Service roadblock on the right!

Of course, another Arlington West was set up in front of the big tent, bringing the total number of crosses pretty close to the actual 1850 killed by this idiotic war at that date.

Inside the tent. Pretty nice setup. They'd come a long way from Cindy and her first people camped out in a roadside ditch. The original intention was to break Camp Casey I, but there were so many people that it continued right along with II, even after Cindy was called to Los Angeles for illness in the family.

USMC Lance Corporal Jeff Keys sounded Taps on the bugle daily at sundown. He's good. A recording is on the Internet.



The Coalition For World Peace thanks all the photographers who made their work available for us to use.