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TALLAHASSEE -- A group of 30 military veterans critical of the war in
Iraq hoped to use Tuesday's Veterans Day parade to call attention to
the increasingly deadly conflict but instead found themselves fighting
for something much more fundamental.

Members of Veterans For Peace and Vietnam Veterans Against the War
were yanked off a downtown Tallahassee street, directly in front of
the Old Capitol, while marching in the holiday parade they had
legitimately registered in.

As organizers allowed the parade to roll on -- including veterans from
various wars, several high school marching bands and even a group of
young women from the local Hooters restaurant -- the anti-war veterans
were ordered onto sidewalks where they passed out leaflets and
displayed a banner reading, "Honor the Warrior, Not the War."

"There's a war going on that's based on lies, just like Vietnam," said
veteran Tom Baxter, an Army equipment maintenance officer in Vietnam
for 16 months in 1967-69. "They were lying then, and they're lying
now."

Parade chairman Ken Conroy, a Korean War veteran, said he ejected the
anti-war veterans because they were offensive and because Tallahassee
police also wanted them removed. He offered to refund their $10
registration fee and said he was not suppressing the group's free
speech rights.