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TWO NATIONS, ONE UNDER GOD

FAMILIES


Travis and Carol Mair, Nevada.


Russ Irwin Porter, director, Harvard Schoolof Public Health, and Christian Schlesinger Porter, elementary-school teacher, who were married on May 17th, with their daughter, Nina, Massachusetts.

PATRIOTS


Cadet Ryan Bocka, West Point.


Caitlin Cianflone, Colorado.

RETIREES


George Engelbach, former sheet-metal worker, delegate, Missouri.


Ernie Garland, former machinist, resident of Reno-Sparks Gospel Mission, Nevada.

MEMBERS


4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.


ACT UP, New York.

OBSERVERS


Bill O’Reilly, Fox News.


Jon Stewart, Comedy Central.

HUMANITARIANS


Ramona Nitz, Luana Stoltenberg, Operatio Outcry, pro-life delegates, Iowa.


Cheri Honkala, Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, Philadelphia.

CASUALTIES


Sgt. Joseph Washam, Texas, third degree burns in Humvee explosion, Baghdad.


Rajinder Singh Khalsa, left for dead on sidewalk, Queens.

SONS

Specialist John R. Copeland, Fort Hood, Texas.


Ron Reagan, Jr., stem-cell advocate, Seattle.

EGGHEADS


Karl Rove, presidential adviser.


Jimmy Carter, Nobel laureate, retired President.

DELEGATES


Patti Coons, Jasper County, Indiana.


Doris Haddock, 94, long-distance walker, delegate, New Hampshire.

Details of ONE NATION’S RAINBOW


Barack Obama, Illinois senator.


Julian Bond, Chairman NAACP, Washington, DC.


Patsy Whitefoot, National Committee Executive Board, delegate, White Swan, Washington.


Mary Alice Palacios, delegate, Texas.


Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., chief prosecuting attorney, Hudson Riverkeeper, White Plains, NY.


Sean Penn, actor, director, bad boy, San Francisco.

WHICH NATION?



Photos by Richard Avedon, The New Yorker.