Posted on 04/12/2006 4:32:44 PM PDT by cold666pack
What Is This Picture?
Obviously, it's a picture in a cemetery. What cemetery and whose grave?
Sadly, it's the grave of Casey Sheehan. After two years, and a DoD payment of $250,000 to the "Peace Mom", Cindy Sheehan has not had the time or bothered to have a headstone placed on this young hero's grave. And, she doesn't even have to pay for one, the DoD will provide one:
"The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) furnishes upon request, at no charge to the applicant, a government headstone or marker for the grave of any deceased eligible veteran in any cemetery around the world. For all deaths occurring before September 11, 2001, the VA may provide a headstone or marker only for graves that are not marked with a private headstone.
Flat markers in granite, marble, and bronze and upright headstones in granite and marble are available. The style chosen must be consistent with existing monuments at the place of burial. Niche markers are also available to mark columbaria used for inurnment of cremated remains."
Apparently she can find time to protest on at least 3 continents, get arrested various times, go on vacation in Hawaii, have photo ops with the Marxists in Venezuela, but can't seem to find the time to properly mark her son's grave.
Ummm nothing.....
Looks an awful lot lie a red x.
Second vote for "Nothing" well it's an "X" I guess.
What picture?
No pic came thru, but if it was C--ty Al-sheehan I'll take a pass.
She's too busy..
Sheehan returns for protest near ranch despite Bush absence
http://www.kristv.com/global/story.asp?s=4763025
Geez...
Not written down someplace and no picture means this has not happened.
The Call of The Ditch
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Sheehan returns for protest near ranch despite Bush absence
http://www.kristv.com/global/story.asp?s=4763025
CRAWFORD, Texas -- Peace activist Cindy Sheehan returned to Texas on Wednesday for another war protest near President Bush's ranch, although he was to spend the weekend at Camp David.
The anti-war demonstrators accused Bush, who has spent every Easter at his Crawford ranch since he was elected, of running from them and their message to bring the U.S. troops home from Iraq immediately.
"We chased him away from his ranch," said Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004. "We protest all over the country without him being in attendance, so I don't think it takes away (from this vigil) a bit because he never met with us anyway. It wasn't even like we ever sat down and had sweet tea together."
But the White House said Bush's plans had nothing to do with the protesters and that he often spends holidays at Camp David with his family.
"The president looks forward to returning to Crawford whenever possible," said a White House spokesman, Blair Jones. "It's the right of the American people to peacefully express their views. The president welcomes the opinions of all Americans."
The group's third Crawford protest in less than a year includes candlelight vigils, a rally and a march. The Rev. Joseph Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr., is to speak at a sunrise Easter Sunday service.
"We're going to do what we do all the time: gather together in peace," Sheehan said. "We're going to call for George Bush and the neo-cons not to invade Iran. That would be a mistake even worse than Iraq. Our children are sitting ducks in the Middle East; the people of Iran and Iraq would be sitting ducks. And I'm not even sure that this invasion won't lead to World War III. So it's something that we have to stop before it starts."
The U.N. Security Council has ordered Iran to stop enriching uranium by April 28, and the chief nuclear inspector heads to Iran for talks Friday to try to resolve the international standoff. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on the Security Council to consider "strong steps" against Iran. The U.S. wants sanctions because it fears Iran aims for nuclear weapons.
Sheehan came to the one-stoplight, 700-resident town of Crawford Aug. 6 after speaking at a Veterans for Peace convention in Dallas.
Sheehan and about 50 others marched toward Bush's ranch and a few camped out in ditches, vowing to remain until he answered her questions about the war with Iraq. Two of his top aides met with Sheehan that first day, but Bush never did during his monthlong working vacation.
Her 26-day vigil drew some 10,000 protesters and grew to two camps, including a larger, one-acre lot donated by a sympathetic landowner.
The protest also upset locals who complained of traffic congestion on the winding, two-lane road. It also drew thousands of Bush supporters who set up a counter camp and said Sheehan was hurting troop morale.
Sheehan and a few hundred anti-war demonstrators returned to Crawford for a second war protest during Thanksgiving week while Bush was again at his ranch.
Just to let you know, you are tyring to link your image from an e-mail, which is a temporary file. You need to find a place to host it and then link it. If you need any help, freepmail me.
You just gotta watch out for those "e-mail from a friend " things.
Picture?
Is there any reason Mr. Sheehan cannot mark his son's grave without the good Mrs. Sheehan?
Just when you thought Mother Sheehan couldn't sink any lower....
Her own (heavily exploited for her own selfish purposes) flesh and blood lies in an unmarked grave.
Ms. Sheehan, God is your secret Judge. There's nothing you can do about it.
Now that is an interesting question.
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