COLUMBUS, Ga. - Wearing white masks and black robes and carrying cardboard coffins and crosses, thousands of demonstrators marched slowly through the gates of Fort Benning.

PEKIN, Ill. (AP) - They wear the same green uniforms as the drug offenders and thieves incarcerated with them.

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - Bucking the pro-military mood of the nation, thousands of protesters descended on the site of a former Army school they blame for training soldiers who carried out human rights abuses in Latin America.

CORDELE, Ga. - For years, peace protesters arrested for trespassing at Fort Benning were allowed to serve their sentences at minimum-security federal institutions closer to their homes, where they could kiss relatives and hold babies in visiting rooms.