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	Friends dropped by all day to express their sympathy. There's a sign in the window that says "Peace is Patriotic" and a book on the coffee table by peace activist William Sloan Coffin Jr. In one of Sher's recent e-mails, Celeste said, he asked for food and water. It appalled his family that soldiers were being sent into combat without the provisions to sustain them. But on Saturday, his brother Raphael, 25, sent a huge package filled with tuna fish, peanut butter, coffee. On Monday, Celeste convinced herself to calm down and stop the incessant worrying that had made her "so upset, so nuts" since Sher had left. And on Monday, Sherwood's wife, Debra, waited in their Wilkes-Barre home for his daily phone call. "She waited until midnight," Al said, weeping. An Army major showed up at the door instead. Losing a child under any circumstances is heartbreaking. There's a certain comfort if you believe he died for a noble purpose - and an unbearable emptiness if you believe he died for no good reason. All Sherwood Baker's family can do now is hope that their voices somehow are heard - that people "shut off reality TV and tune into reality," Celeste said. "I don't say I know the answer, but this policy is horribly wrong."


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