Sonoma County's Veterans for Peace has been relegated to the rear of Saturday's 113th annual Rose Parade after other veterans groups complained about the organization's anti-war politics.
Dubbed "rabble-rousers" by one mainstream veterans group leader, the Veterans for Peace will be fifth from the end of the two-hour parade, with 84 units separating them from a contingent of seven other veterans groups, including the American Legion and the Marine Corps League.
The arrangement was a compromise, coming after the Rose Parade board of directors initially banned the Veterans for Peace, based on complaints from other veterans, and then relented after the anti-war group appealed.
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"I myself would call them rabble-rousers," said Jack Pressey, adjutant of Santa Rosa's American Legion Post 21, which will march Saturday. "They don't want us to be involved in any war."
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