Posted on 09/26/2005 6:39:53 PM PDT by Mom of Two Soldiers
OPEN LETTER TO CINDY SHEEHAN:
Residing in the same town as you once resided and knowing your family, I must ask you, "Whatever are you thinking?"
Your son was the one who encouraged my youngest son to enlist. You were very proud of Casey and what he was doing then and he believed very much in what he was doing.
After Casey was killed, my eldest was one of the local airmen who brought him home, facing hostile fire to do so, so you would not not have to wait.
My daughter comforted you and your family. You two spent hours and hours engaged in heartfelt grief. At that time, you were very, very supportive of the President, of our soldiers and of what was occurring in Iraq.
Cindy, you've changed since the Kerry campaign contacted you in early July of last summer. You're not the same grieving mom, especially after you started traveling on the road to support John Kerry's campaign.
You've turned into a political puppet for those who are exploiting you and its not pretty nor does it do anything for Casey's memory. You're not the same, quiet compassionate woman we saw at church or downtown, when you proudly sat as the entire town showed up on Memorial Day to honor Casey and Mike Williams.
How can you justify berating the President for honoring the soldiers who died while protecting America and following the directives of the Congress and the Senate? How can you consistently state that you don't want your son's name to be acknowledged by him and on the same hand, turn around and use the name of Joe Williams' Mike, as an example for your cause despite the many requests of the family for you not to do so? How could you print Mike's name in your anti-war advertisement in the newspaper even after seeing the grief and effort his mother went through to go to Crawford to personally remove it from your cross. You knew it caused them pain.
Mike died honorably and his father, a Vietnam vet is very proud of him. He believed in what he was doing, just like Casey. How could you bring so much pain to the Williams family and so much pain to a nation because of your own anger?
Cindy, how can you do this to your kids who don't know how to explain your actions to anyone here in town? They went through a lot last summer and still are.
The hours, days and weeks following Casey's death were emotionally gut wrenching as many of us with children, husbands, wives, friends and other loved ones in the military comforted you while living with the fears for our own loved ones over there. Everyone went above and beyond because we all believed and still believe in how very right, honorable and courageous our loved ones are in their mission to keep America safe.
We all went through considerable anguish when Casey died and I suspect none moreso than you. But how can you justify your anguish and place it on a higher level than that of Joe Williams?
The treatment you've returned to everyone is inexcusable. Placing Mike Williams' name on a cross despite the family's objections was unforgiveable and the reaction of Mike's mother when she saw it was heartbreaking.
What you are doing to neighbors, to friends, Casey's battle buddies and to a nation of people who are having to relieve the ugly pain of the late 60s and the 70s is unfair.
This is about you, Cindy. Not about anyone else. When you turn your back on your neighbors, your friends, your family and act in this manner, it only evidences that there is no consideration toward anyone or anything else.
Finally, and most disturbing, how can you support a group that supported John Kerry, who on April 7th, on National Public Radio stated that Al Sadr had a "legitimate voice" and that the Coalition (including your son) should not have closed down his newspaper after he called for the deaths of U.S. troops.
You know better than anyone else, Casey was killed in Sadr City by the Al Sadr militants. How can you join ranks with those who support the terrorist who called for the death of your son?
Its beyond me, Cindy, and something I suspect, someday in the future, you'll look back on and with considerable pain.
We don't want that for you. I believe you need to sit down and think about it long and hard. You are bringing so much pain to this nation and its people.
Linda
good thoughts on a nasty subject.
Very well done Mom.
Good letter, Linda. I hope she reads it.
I'm *really* beginning to think Sheehan might be clinically insane.
Bump
One big bump from me. :-)
it begins to look that way, to my lay and skeptical eye.
I hold no great love for or belief in psychology... I wonder whether there are neurobiological indicators for Munchausen's
And I agree with your prior comment...where you stated it appears her mind has fled. Hopefully she can find it one day.
God bless you and your family.
Oh, she IS being used...I'm sorry if I didn't word that properly. She's (well...) gotten that whole "letter" of hers right from the DNC.
All I mean is, if she'd only taken the love of her husband, children, extended family and friends such as Linda...instead of allowing herself the fame and glory Kerry, Moore, etal offered her...none of this would have to happen.
She sounds dangerously insane. Yikes!
We're all watching this woman completely destroy herself.
My anger is not as much to Cindy as it is to those who took advantage of her in her condition. Im not going to feel any better if this woman commits suicide.
How in the world can she call Iraq a sovereign nation?
And I have enough cruelty in me, I am sorry to say, to hope that one day she has the opportunity to regret what she has wrought. Then she can heal.
....dang....
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for writing this a sharing it with us. I can only imagine the pain she has caused you, her family, the neighborhood, and America lovers everywhere.
You knew her as a different person. I have only known her as a hateful one and never have had the chance to see any goodness in the woman. Lately her on-camera antics have disgusted me, a stranger, so it is safe to assume she has all new friends now...
I've noticed that DNC footpads and cats-paws have a tendency to spew rote talking-points (often in a very predictable sequence) since the late 1990's.
Basket-cases make good parrots, perhaps?
A thought has just come to me & I'd like to share it:
Now that "Mother Sheehan" is in the Cooler (but most likely soon to be out so this might not happen)...
Why doesn't someone try to get pictures of her while incarcerated like what was done with Saddam Hussein???
I think you might be right, because about the same time that was posted, Conyers was saying she was being held in a bus for several hours. These people will lie about anything.
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