Any vigils planned for Philadelphia? I might have a little time on my hands tomorrow.
It sounds like she took a tour. I have no information about Philadelphia.
***As Cindy Sheehan is interviewed by Univision’s reporter Xochitl Arellano, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan name is read aloud at Sacramento's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. When she hears her son's name Cindy Sheehan is overcome by emotion. Her hand covers her mouth, her eyes close in grief as her head turns down towards her son’s very own boots, she stops talking to Arellano.
Sheehan, 47 from Vacaville, and the reporter are kneeling down amid 171 empty boots representing the armed services personnel from California killed in the Iraq war. California is the state with most casualties in Iraq.
The rank, name, and birth state of the 1, 529 US service men and women killed continues to be read as part of the Eyes Wide Open exhibition. The names are read one by one along the names of the identified killed Iraqis. The process will last for hours.
After pausing for a few seconds Sheehan continues the interview, one of the very many she has given since a year ago her oldest son Casey was killed in Iraq.
This image of Sheehan unfortunately has become a familiar one for many of you. You might have seeing her at Good Morning America in inauguration day, you could have seen her watery eyes in a picture at the San Francisco Chronicle, or in the front cover of The Nation magazine, or perhaps you have seen her addressing the President on her election time TV ad for Moveon.org.
Arellano commented on the impression Sheehan caused on her. At first she didn’t know why, at the middle of the interview, she suddenly stopped talking, fighting tears. But then Sheehan explained her that her son’s name had just been read. Arellano said that she was emotionally moved when Casey Sheehan’s mother told her, “wars will stop when women are in power.”
Approaching the first anniversary of Casey’s death on April 4th 2004, Sheehan joined the traveling exhibit. Eyes Wide Open is both a public tribute to the American military personnel killed in Iraq as well as an exhibition on the human costs of the Iraq war.
The exhibit started January 2004 in Chicago with 504 boots representing US military casualties. When the boots reached Sacramento on March 29 this year the number was 1,529. ............***
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/05/1742719.php