I don’t know whether any of you made it to the vigil on Monument Circle last night. I’d guess maybe 60 or 70 people showed up, and figure that’s not bad for a weeknight in 90-degree heat. People of just about all ages were there, but most of the crowd looked to be middle-aged or older. What they had in common, of course, was a passionate dislike of George Bush and a fervent wish to see the war in Iraq brought to an end.

I suppose all such events draw hecklers and this one was no exception. The hecklers were all young and mostly male. I wasn’t sure what to make of that, except I kept thinking that if this war had a draft, they might have been in Iraq last night instead of riding around Monument Circle on their “Ninja” motorcycles, shouting obscenities and revving their engines at a bunch of gray-headed war protestors. You know the kind of motorcycles I’m talking about—they sound like giant insects.

Anyway, if I have a right to protest, they have a right to heckle. I certainly wouldn’t rather see them in Iraq.

A calendar of American troops killed or maimed since January 1 of this year was read. It took an hour.

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