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- ↑ via Associated Press. "As New York prepares for Bush, protests gather pace", Taipei Times , August 30, 2004. Accessed February 16, 2011. "Sue Niederer of Pennington, New Jersey, who lost her son Seth Dvorin in Iraq earlier this year, grieves at a memorial yesterday, in Central Park in New York."
- ↑ "No Charges Against NJ Woman Who Heckled Mrs. Bush". The Rogan Board. Retrieved 2010-06-05.