Alfred Zappala, Peace Activist Who Lost Son in Iraq, Dies at 68

by via Democracy Now

Fri, Aug 15, 2008 7:44AM

Friday, August 15, 2008 :The peace activist Alfred Zappala has died at the age of sixty-eight after a battle with lung cancer. Zappala became a vocal critic of the war in Iraq in 2004 after his son, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, was killed in Baghdad.

Baker was the first member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard to die in combat since 1945. In May 2004, Alfred Zappala and his wife Celeste Zappala appeared on Democracy Now.

Alfred and Celeste Zappala, appearing on Democracy Now!, May 13, 2004.

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