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
This one.
Nope, wrong family. O'Reilly was talking about Cindy, and then switched to another family where what you mentioned happened. Cindy and her husband were still married, at least as of the last time I checked, although I think he's in the process of divorcing her now that she has brought shame to their son.
Watching her walk around with her son's picture, I just kept thinking about how, if the dead can see, he must be rolling in his grave watching his mother hanging like an albatross from his picture.
This needs to be a major, FAIR newspaper, for all America to see!
Please publish it - NOW!!
Second,
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.
Its all about $$$$$$$$$.
And that if not all is what her protest is really about and it is really disgusting.
MUST READ!
The Kerry campaign contacted her to ''use'' her to help get Lurch get elected. When that didn't happen they dumped her . Now the radical left is''using' her to help promote their evil agenda. When the war doesn't end I'm sure they'll dump her too..............I heard way before her son was tragically killed she used to be depressed and bored with her life. Its too bad it took the death of her noble son to finally give her one!
I think it is the way she constantly states that "George Bush killed her son." For a crazy, obsessed, and dimwitted person like her, how many more steps would it be for her to feel justified to take violent or vengeful action against someone? Two of many threatening/foul-mouthed quotes from Crazy Cindy:
"And I know I don't look like I'm outraged, I'm always so calm and everything, that's because if I started hitting something, I wouldn't stop til it was dead."
"And, he also said, he says this often, and this really drives me crazy, he said that we have to stay in Iraq and complete the mission, to honor the sacrifices of the ones who have fallen."
Driving Cindy crazy would have to be the shortest trip on earth.
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Naw, she's just grieving over the loss of her son.
She has lost the biggest thing in her life now, I suppose, a cohesive family.
She left them, they did not leave her.
She is getting all of that void filled in right now with the wooing from the leftist crowd, visits by hillary, etc.
But when this is over, perhaps, and she can no longer indulge in her narcissistic fantasy, then, maybe when she comes back to earth she will have moments of suicidal thoughts.
But I doubt she would ever do this....she seems way to impressed with herself.
I hear you.
I will take a look at what she does in the days to come. That will be my cue as to whether I will continue to ridicule her or continue pitying her.
Her kids, so tragic to lose a brother and a mother.
How are they?
For many of us who lived through the late 60's early 70's betrayal of our nation we will not stand for it again.
We did not have FR back then, we had Walter Cronkite telling us we lost because of TET, when in actuality we delivered a blistering blow to the enemy.
We had Jane Fonda, who received no organized rebuttal.
We had John, Christmas in Cambodia, Kerry lying to a senate sub committee without the likes of FR to expose his lies.
The list goes on, and never again.
THAT IS WHY.
I have hear of this before .. and still wonder, what in the world did he say to her to make her change like this?
These actions of Cindy's are not about Casey, but all about Cindy
Thank you Mom of Two Soldiers for sharing this with us
God Bless & Thank You and all our Military and their families for serving our country so proudly
They will in front of every camera they can find and scream hysterically thet "BUSH KILLED CINDY!!".
She is a useful idiot and they will cast her lifeless body aside after it has no further political value for them. Just like Kerry did to all of the Vietnam veterans.
Baloney--she will never feel anything--'evil' people do 'evil' things and think nothing of it---that POS is reveling in the media spotlight and loving every minute some stinking commie loving liberal kisses her a--, so she will grin once again like a jackass for the MSM
Cindy Sheehan is a disgrace!!
I disagree. I don't think she is evil, there is nothing in her past (that I have heard of) to suggest she has conducted herself in this or a similar vein in the past. That leaves only mental instability as a justification for her actions. People don't just turn evil; they are evil to start with and have a long history of doing evil things. Cindy only has a year or so under her belt.
This is a very moving letter. I join all the others in encouraging you to make this known beyond FR. Thank you to your soldiers and your family for protecting my family.
Rush Limbaugh should be talking about this letter tomorrow morning once it's verified (sorry but I jumped around the thread)
Must admit...wondering why this letter or something like it from the poster hasn't appeared on any of the thousand Sheehan threads until now.
I guess I'm too cynical at my old age.
This letter in the right media hands can be devastating to their momentum.
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