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Five SOA Watch Protesters Receive Two-Month Sentences

Kristen Holm, far left, and Theresa Cusimano, far right, stand with the Rev. Luis Barrios at the courthouse steps in Columbus as he speaks against the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formally known as School of Americas. Six people, including the ones pictured, were accused of crossing onto Fort Benning during the SOA Watch protest in November. (Shannon Szwarcsszwarc.)

Louis Wolf was one of six protesters who trespassed onto Fort Benning.

On Monday, in U.S. District Court, he used his one remaining leg and a cane to walk to the witness stand. The 68-year-old declined Magistrate G. Mallon Faircloth's offer of the seat, instead choosing to stand and read aloud the motivations that led him to cross the line.

An hour later, he was still reading.

"I'm almost finished, your honor," Wolf said.

Twelve minutes later, he was.