Reply #16: Hundreds unite against hate

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Article Launched: 09/03/2006 02:00:00 AM EDT
Storm fails to dampen G-burg community solidarity event
By JEFFREY B. ROTH
For the Daily Record/Sunday News

.. Held at Gettysburg Recreation Park, the event combined free entertainment, free food and a children's carnival, among other activities, to bring the community together to celebrate diversity, said Jean Odom, retired executive director of South Central Community Action Programs and a member of the unity day's steering committee ..

A former KKK member, Floyd Cochrain of Lock Haven said he quit the group in the mid-1990s because of his son. Cochrain, who now travels and speaks against the Klan, said that, according to KKK and Aryan Nation philosophy, his disabled son should have been euthanized ..

"Look around at the people here ... different races, ethnic groups and cultures," Strobert said. "They also represent a cross-section of ages, from children to senior citizens. It shows the strength of the people in Gettysburg." ..

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