From: Ted Drude <[t--dr--e] at [delphi.com]>
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Survivor plants trees to remember Waco raid
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 95 14:53:15 -0500

    WACO, Texas, Feb 28 (Reuter) - In a simple ceremony on Tuesday, a survivor
of the fiery 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian cult headquarters planted six
trees to commemorate members who died in an earlier shootout with law officers.
    The remembrance activity, two years after the deaths, took place at what was
once the front yard of the compound.
    Over 70 Branch Davidians including their leader David Koresh and several
British and Australian cultists, died in a fire that broke out when authorities
ended a standoff and attacked the group's compound. Fifty-one days earlier six
of the cult had died in a shootout with Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
(ATF) agents.
    Survivor Clive Doyle led the obvervance by tearfully quoting scripture. He
spoke briefly about the six members killed in a shootout with federal
enforcement officers and also read a listing of the names of the four ATF agents
who died in the incident.
    Less than a dozen Branch Davidians and sympathisers gathered for the
commemoration, which took place under bleak and rainy skies. More than twice
that number of reporters and photographers showed up.
    "A lot of people would like to sweep this under the carpet and forget it
ever happened," Doyle said. "Innocent people died and we want justice done. We
want to let the people know this should never have happened in this country."
    The group plans to plant 76 more trees in memory of the other Branch
Davidians who died in the fire.
    Federal agents had stormed the compound of the Branch Davidians to serve
search and arrest warrants for suspected weapons violations.