Grieving mother of Iraq war casualty brings her antiwar plea to Ann Arbor

Grieving mother of Iraq war casualty brings her antiwar plea to Ann Arbor: "Many of the 860 people who filled the Michigan Theater Sunday night for a benefit screening of Michael Moore's controversial movie 'Fahrenheit 9/11' spent the first half of the movie applauding antiwar sentiment, hissing at members of the Bush administration and laughing at the president's foibles or a gum-smacking Britney Spears expressing her support for him.
But when the movie switched to scenes of Lila Lipscomb, the grieving mother of a Flint soldier killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq on April 2, 2003, there was silence. And then tears.
The fact that Lipscomb was in the audience made her scenes even more poignant. "


BY JO COLLINS MATHIS
News Staff Reporter