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Priests, peace activists attend Berrigan's funeral
Baltimore-AP -- Hundreds of mourners carried puppets, signs and roses in today's funeral procession for Philip Berrigan. He was the patriarch of the Roman Catholic anti-war movement in the U-S.His plain wooden coffin, hand painted with red roses, was carried by a pickup truck through the rough Baltimore neighborhood where he once served as a priest.Bagpipers played "Amazing Grace" and Buddhist monks chanted and beat drums.Among those in the procession was actor and activist Martin Sheen, who called Berrigan "heroic and committed" -- and said he was an inspiration and a mentor to him and others.Berrigan died of cancer Friday at age 79.He staged some of the most dramatic anti-war protests of the 1960s. He led a group that poured homemade napalm onto a small bonfire of Selective Service draft records in suburban Baltimore in 1968.
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