 "If I truly was a media whore do you think I would like maybe get myself fixed up a little bit before I went on?" Quote and pic of Cindy Sheehan - August 24, 2005 |
Posted on 08/27/2005 7:19:36 AM PDT by redheadtoo
Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan
OK, you have gotten your "mad" out there. You've been noticed. You've attracted pity. You've had your say. Now, please, go home and stop embarrassing yourself and shaming your own son's memory.
Don't think, for a single moment, that you have the market cornered on grief and loss. There are countless mothers who have lost loved ones. My son fought in the war, but I never had the President of the United States greet me, but if he had, he wouldn't have remembered my son's name either.
I am a counselor, and I meet with people all the time, who come to me with emotional wounds. It is a natural thing to feel personally wronged when a loved one, particularly a child, is taken, from them... regardless of the cause. They have lost something precious, and they are angry. They want someone, anyone, to "pay." And you have decided that the one "to pay" you for the loss of your son, Casey, is going to be George Bush. And you are "not leaving Crawford until he's held accountable."
Congratulations! You have now, single-handedly, shamed your own son's memory. Your son VOLUNTARILY, enlisted in the military armed forces, so that people such as yourself could retain the right to speak their minds, make public fools of themselves, verbally attack the office of the President of the United States, and (essentially) try to hold him hostage. You are just a different type of terrorist yourself, and doing the very thing your son died for: resisting.
War, in case you have never cracked open a history book, is ugly. People die. Had there not been ranks and files of anguished mothers who also lost their sons during the Revolutionary War, you would not be living here in America, enjoying the rights and freedoms you obviously take for granted, and feel you deserve. Freedom is paid for with blood. Had your son died in the Twin Towers on 9-1-1, you would be chaining yourself to a fence in Crawford, Texas, demanding that George Bush go bomb the hell out of some terrorists.
Your anger is really towards your son, because he joined the cause of freedom, of his own free will, and you disagreed with his choice to do so. You had personal goals and dreams for him, and now they cannot happen. His life was cut short, and YOU are feeling ripped off and wronged.
George Bush is not intimidated by you. He is not frightened by you. And quite frankly, he doesn't have the time for you. There are some 300,000,000 people in this country, and he knows precious few of them by name. Get over it. You do NOT speak for the majority of us. You speak for yourself and have, already, embarrassed way too many of us. Pack up your soapbox, and your Jane Fonda want-to-be cause, and go home. Go sit at your son's graveside and apologize to him for shaming him, the cause HE stood for, and his memory you have belittled.
Dr. Barbara Collier
OK, you have gotten your "mad" out there.
Laughing, that is a funny one, will remember it. "gotten your "mad" out there"
"Let's hope that Dr. Collier's letter will cause a few of them to be shamed by their exploitation.
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Please, your hoping is wasted on the shameless whose careers are built and fueled by exploitation.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Liberals do not know what shame is. Their lives are dicated by the "end justifies the means" motto.
8 years under William Jefferson Clinton taught us that.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
"Your anger is really towards your son, because he joined the cause of freedom, of his own free will, and you disagreed with his choice to do so. You had personal goals and dreams for him, and now they cannot happen. His life was cut short, and YOU are feeling ripped off and wronged. "
Exactly
Bump
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
ABSOLUTELY ON SPOT!!
p.s. love your tag-line
GODSPEED!
The Wellstone Memorial service was one of the funniest events in the past 50 years. It had almost nothing to do with a memorial and after you watched fifteen minutes of it...you simply had to laugh. It was a pure ralley. And I wondered...is this the way you really want to honor someone?
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
How DARE you question their values! Don't you understand just how wonderful & and caring the left is? I can't think of a greater group of true blue patriots than Code-Pink.
But then I think Hillary Clinton is the smartest woman in the world today.
I think you need to go lay down now. ;^)
I shudder to think of what I would do if Sheehan had used without my permission the name of my child killed in the war on those fake crosses. This the greatest evil perpetuated so far by Sheehan, IMO.
"If I truly was a media whore do you think I would like maybe get myself fixed up a little bit before I went on?" Quote and pic of Cindy Sheehan - August 24, 2005 |
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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