Mortuary Owner Calls Cindy Sheehan A Liar

Sweetness & Light ^ | April 18, 2006 | N/A

[Sam Hill]

As usual, negative stories about Mother Sheehan are only to be found in the local papers. This one is from her erstwhile home town (for a few years, anyway) the Vacaville Reporter:

 

Sheehan Refuted

Director rebuts 'Peace Mom's' story
By Julie Kay/Staff Writer

A Vacaville funeral home owner took exception to "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan's allegation that his mortuary did not fulfill its duties after her son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004.

In her blog last week, Sheehan wrote that the mortuary had refused to pay the cemetery as it was supposed to. Steve Nadeau, the mortuary's owner, said Monday that not only did he properly pay the cemetery, but that he subsidized the process with his own money.

Nadeau read Sheehan's comments in The Reporter Sunday, in a story about Sheehan's defense of her decision not to put a headstone on Casey's grave. Sheehan had described her choice at length in the same blog entry that mentioned Nadeau's Funeral Home.

The Reporter called Nadeau Friday and left a message at his office seeking his comments.

Nadeau returned the call and left a message saying he would be unavailable until Monday.

In an e-mail sent to The Reporter Sunday, Nadeau expressed hurt and disbelief at Sheehan's comments. He said that the amount of money the military gave the mortuary for Casey's funeral service and cemetery arrangements didn't even come close to covering the costs.

"Several kind citizens made donations," said Nadeau. "I absorbed the rest."

This was not the only way in which he went above and beyond his responsibilities following Casey's death, said Nadeau. He also provided a stretch limousine and a driver at his expense, he said, and invited the family to go to the airport with him so that he could accompany them. None of this was required, said Nadeau.

"Having known the Sheehan family for many years through St. Mary's Catholic Church where Ms. Sheehan had previously been the youth director, it was my desire to provide care and dignity to Casey and the family. I did this in every respect."

Nadeau also refuted Sheehan's statement that the mortuary finally paid the cemetery only after the family threatened to bring the story to the media.

"This never happened," said Nadeau. "I would stop by the family home as I do most families' homes and check with them on necessary needs, etc."

Nadeau said the military provided his mortuary $5,736 in funding to pay for the funeral service and cemetery arrangements. The funding came in May 2004, said Nadeau, and he paid the cemetery as soon as the costs had been totaled and the donations received.

In a phone call Monday, Sheehan stood by her allegations. Sheehan also said that Casey's grave site was now being handled by her soon-to-be ex-husband Patrick.

Patrick Sheehan said Monday that the small plaque currently marking Casey's grave is something all graves receive before a headstone is constructed. Casey's headstone is in the works, he said, and is being built by a local monument company.

Isn't it beautiful? The community and Mr. Nadeau covered much of Mother Sheehan's expenses, and she still has to trash them and lie about them.

Army Maj. Gen. Rodney Kobayashi presents the Purple Heart and Bronze Star to Cindy Sheehan Tuesday, April 13, 2004, during a funeral service for her son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan 24, in Vacaville, Calif.

No, she isn't crazy.

Not much.

[Sam Hill]

"As as you so sweetly put it, maybe I don't know what I am talking about. I still don't think she is a millionaire. Even once."

How much do you think people get for movie deals--even TV movie deals--which star Susan Sarandon, when they are using your life story?

Sorry, but you simply don't know what you are talking about. At all.

[DJ MacWoW]

Well she's more believable than the NY Times. LOL

I'd believe an eyewitness over any fishwrap. And how would she document it? I know you don't doubt it but it's difficult to prove.

[lowbridge]

bump

[silver charm]

There is no movie deal. Talks about a movie. Discussions about what if a movie. But no movie deal.

Maybe you have too much faith in her appeal?

[Doctor Raoul]

There was a fund raiser at the Grand Lake Theater where the causes were Code Pink, Global Exchange and Cindy. The first two are both Medea Benjamin groups, so I get the split went $2 for Medea, $1 for Cindy, $2 for Medea, $1 for Cindy...if she were lucky.

[utahagen]

Are there any freepers who actually know Cindy Sheehan? I ask because her transformation seems so dramatic that it would be interesting to hear from people who know the Sheehans personally. Was Cindy always a freak?

[Doctor Raoul]

She probably has been given money from Moore and possibly even Kerry. But I've never seen it documented. She is very close to Moore and probably got the idea of stalking Bush from him.

I believe it was Ice Cream man Ben Cohen paying for Fenton Communications coming in down at Camp Crazy.

[Sam Hill]

"I believe it was Ice Cream man Ben Cohen paying for Fenton Communications coming in down at Camp Crazy."

Possibly. But Mother Sheehan and Fenton Communications have a relation that goes back to the "Real Voices" ad during the campaign.

That was paid for by MoveOn and ultimately of course Soros. So I suspect Soros is continuing to fund their work with Cindy.

[manwiththehands]

Doesn't the government pay for burial costs of fallen soldiers?

[Doctor Raoul]

I didn't mean to imply that Al-sheehani is destitute or recieving food stamp and section 8 housing.

She's in a studio (1 room) appartment in the Berekely area. Here landlords are the wackjobs that put an US soldier out with a noose around his neck and a flag over his face.

[Sam Hill]

Don't forget Cindy's "benefit" in NYC which must have netter her quite a few shekels:

Anti-war artists give [self] benefit concert

Stipe, Moby among the performers
By PAUL BURKHARDT

Associated Press Writer

March 21, 2006

NEW YORK // Michael Stipe, Susan Sarandon, Cindy Sheehan and others marked the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq with a concert to benefit groups campaigning against the war.

Organizers of Monday night’s "Bring ‘Em Home Now!" concert said 3,000 tickets were sold.

Profits from the ticket sales will go to anti-war groups including Gold Star Families for Peace, which counts Sheehan among its founding members, and Veterans Against the War.

Cindy Sheehan Benefits Herself | Sweetness & Light
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/cindy-sheehan-benefits-herself/

She is making money hand over fist. And she has been doing so since at least last August.

[stop_fascism]

The Saranden movie deal should put her over the top.

[stop_fascism]

That was approximately the cost of my father-in-law's modest funeral in rural PA and he already owned a plot. It doesn't seem unreasonable. Couldn't Casey have been buried in a National cemetary?

[ShandaLear]

Why don'tt his father and the rest of his family take care of this?

[originalbuckeye]

She may be making money hand over fist right now. Do you actually believe she's banking any of it? She will be history in the next few years and then she will be on the streets wondering where all her friends went.

[Doctor Raoul]

Here's the link to PR MAchine Behind Cindy Sheehan by Mark Matthews for the San Francisco ABC station.

For Crawford, Fenton was paid by Cohen's True Majority.

I remember the "Voices" ads and how she never mentioned them when she debuted, nor was the media interested when we put that out there. All of a sudden she appears out of no where, a virginal mom who wants a meeting and answers, with no mention that she had a meeting and had already done commericals against Bush.

BTW, Mark Williams HAS to be the model on which "Ron Burgandy" had to have been based. But he got some of it correct here.

[DJ MacWoW]

Why don'tt his father and the rest of his family take care of this?

Because it came out last year that Cindy had control of the gravesite. The current article you are posting to states: " Sheehan also said that Casey's grave site was now being handled by her soon-to-be ex-husband Patrick."

[Beckwith]

This woman is despicable.