I've tried to track back and cannot seem to see or find the original email you mention from the Casey family. If you have it could you post the original or link to it?
Right Wing Death Babe Melanie Morgan at KSFO received a statement from the family this morning, in response to a condolence letter she had sent in response to... well, you get the picture. Melanie was kind enough to forward it to me to help get it moving in the blogosphere to counter all the fawning attention Sheehan's little vigil in Crawford is generating in the general media.