While President Bush was speaking, anti-war demonstrators gathered outside calling for the troops to be brought home from Iraq. Protest organizers in Salt Lake City had taken out a permit for a one-thousand person protest–but more than twice that many took to the streets. Celeste Zappala–who co-founded Gold Star Mothers for Peace with Cindy Sheehan–addressed the crowd. Her 30-year-old son Sherwood Baker died in Baghdad last year.