Heartbreaking Photo of Cindy Sheehan. Please rate it Up....

[leftchick]

every time I see her I want to cry. :(



Cindy Sheehan, of Berkley, Calif., wipes away a tear Monday, July 11, 2005, at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, while discussing the death of her son Casey, who died on April 4, 2004, five days after he arrived with his Army unit in Iraq. Sheehan said that the recruiter who persuaded her son to join the Army four years earlier promised Casey he would never see combat and reneged on most of the signing bonus he was guaranteed. (AP Photo/John M. Harris)

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[CoffeeAnnan]

1. The sorrow in her eyes says it all for me.

[quaway]

3. but if you "join" the military

you must understand that you may see combat.
but the other stuff about the recruiter reneging on bonuses is something that needs to be looked into.

[newyawker99]

10. Hi quaway!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[LizW]

2. I can't imagine her pain

I have two sons and I absolutely cannot imagine losing one of them to this illegal war machine.

I admire Cindy so much because she is able to take her pain and transform it into something so constructive and meaningful. If this nation is saved, it will be because of people like her.

I am afraid that in her position, I would be paralyzed by hatred and transformed into a raging lunatic. I'm sure they never would have let me into Bush's presence had he killed one of my sons the way he killed Casey.

[still_one]

5. if you join the military you may kill and be killed

the war is illegal, but it was also supported by most of our wonderful democrats in congress who refused to do their job

there was enough knowledge to know that iraq poised no threat, and that the WMDs was a lie, yet congress still gave * the authority to go into Iraq. As much as I dispise this administration, it took congress, democrats and repukes to allow him to do what he did

[leftchick]

9. I admire her for her resolve as well

I have two young sons as well and if I were in her shoes I would be a mess. She has such courage.

[acmejack]

4. I love Cindy!

She is one of our finest and most powerful advocates. I hate the fact that she had to endure the suffering that she is to be such an advocate.

I grieve with her and share her righteous anger.

[gademocrat7]

6. Heartbreaking photo

Cindy Sheehan is an articulate advocate who publicly has exposed the immorality of this war.

[Selatius]

7. Ah, the true price of war

It can't be measured just in equipment lost, money spent, and people killed. There's an emotional and psychological component to war that is immeasurable as far as misery and despair go.

For instance, they say upwards of 50,000,000 died in Europe during WW2. What's in a number? In each of those 50,000,000 was a human life, human emotion, dreams, fears, and hopes. All of that was snuffed out in the madness. The price is not limited to them but also to those who watched their loved ones die. They pay an emotional/psychological toll as well.

The same goes with the situation in Iraq, albeit on a far smaller scale. Is it any wonder Europeans are still so averse to war 60 years after?

[Wetzelbill]

8. that's awful