It appears this is the entirety of the LAT coverage of the mowing down of the crosses --
Protesters Don't Find Many Welcome Mats
By Warren Vieth, Times Staff Writer
CRAWFORD, Texas -- Melissa Harrison thought she was just being neighborly when she let a group of antiwar activists hold a news conference on her property. Then her father, who lives just down the road, began calling her Hanoi Jane.
Even in Crawford, which prides itself on its laid-back lifestyle and friendly people, the good-neighbor thing has its limits....
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As the town nearest to President Bush's ranch has gone from being a media outpost to an antiwar encampment, frictions between the outsiders and the local population have begun to intensify.
A man from nearby Waco drove to the protest camp in his pickup truck and deliberately ran over small crosses planted along the road to honor the Iraq war dead. Larry Northern, 46, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief.
A sheep rancher whose property is across the road fired a shotgun in the air to protest the protests. Some residents have called on the county commission to do something about the crowd....
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-neighbors17aug17,0,250994.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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