Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME, May 29th, 2006
EASTPORT - Brooke Clark was 5 when her dad was sent to Iraq as a soldier.
Even at that age, it wasn't hard for the girl to understand the significance of a single electric candle that burned in the window at her grandmother's house.
Today, she is 8 and her cousin Theodore "Teddy" Cummings of Perry is in Iraq, and that same candle continues to burn at Grandma Patti Craig's home on Barren Street.
When Craig began her campaign 15 years ago to get people to put a single light in their windows, U.S. troops were in the Persian Gulf.
Now, the United States is in a different war under a different ...
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