Her son reenlisted but you wouldn't know it from this AP story.
***[AP]........Her 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, in April 2004 just five days after he arrived. Two months later, Sheehan was among grieving military family members who met with Bush at Fort Lewis, near Seattle, Wash.
Using her son's life insurance money, Sheehan has traveled around the country protesting Bush and the war, including at an October fundraising visit by Bush to St. Petersburg.
She said various government and independent commission reports have disputed the Bush administration's claims that Saddam Hussein had mass-killing chemical and biological weapons - a main justification for the March 2003 invasion.
On Wednesday, a coalition of antiwar groups in Washington called on Bush to speak with Sheehan.
"Cindy Sheehan has become the Rosa Parks of the antiwar movement," said the Rev. Lennox Yearwood, leader of the Hip Hop Caucus, an activist group. "She's tired, fed up and she's not going to take it anymore, and so now we stand with her."
Some veterans and relatives of those killed have called Sheehan's vigil a distraction and continue to support the U.S. military action in Iraq...........
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/11/Worldandnation/Mother_s_war_protest_.shtml
You know, the more I think about this, the more it seems to me that she has already had her "honor" for the sacrifice of her son. Now she should be treated just like any other public figure protesting the war. We should be allowed to question her motives, to point out her false statements, and to judge her by the company she keeps.
There are protests in "solidarity" for her. What are the protesting about? The media sometimes says it is just for her "right" to speak with the president -- but there are millions of americans who would like to do that. She got her "meeting" because of her son's death. Now she should stand in line. Wouldn't every media personality want a one-on-one with the president?
If I were related to Rosa Parks, I would be upset. Rosa Parks was discriminated against her whole life. She took a stand for her own right to sit where she wanted to on a bus.
Cindy Sheehan is just a woman who wants to meet with the president. She already did it once, but she now wants a "do-over". Does the left really equate Cindy Sheehan not getting a 2nd meeting with the President with Rosa Parks putting her life in danger to sit on the front of a bus?
Where is the outrage of the black community?