How would that effect any of us - I dare say we would only find out if that tragedy came into our home.
I say Leave her alone !
If she wants to rant and rave - go ahead - give her leave.
and.... pay her no attention if it bothers you.
She lost her child.
I would normally feel exactly as you do in this regard, but only if what she were doing were harmless to others. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case here. She has made life so much more difficult for so many other families by claiming to speak for military families. She has made it easier for people to condemn and disdain us with her claims that the rest of us (military families) aren’t capable of understanding what pawns we are. I place a lot of blame for the fact that I constantly feel I have to make apologies for my husband (and I do have to more often than I would like) squarely on shoulders of her and people like her.
I realize she lost her child, and I realize that is an awful, terrible, agonizing thing. But Casey made his choices. He chose to reenlist, IIRC, he actually chose to go back and join his unit again in Iraq. She should respect his choices and what clearly seem to be his wishes and not do this in his name. She can’t seem to face that though, so her behavior seems more like selfishness to me. I pray that some day she finds peace. But she has also done a lot of damage.
So she is not responsible for her actions......she gets an eternal pass regardless of her treachery?
She used her son's death as a springboard for her own ego.
I have sympathy for the son and all that mourn him.
I do not think she mourns her son.
How one respnds to tragedy is a personal choice.
Cindy made hers. . .and if she engenders a visceral, hateful response to her own efforts to diminish the loss of others who like her; are suffering their own tragedies; so be it.
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It’s how she disparages what her son stood for that is disgusting about this ‘woman’. She has done the verbal equivalent of urinating on his grave and memory.
Yeah, and leave Axis Sally and Lord Haw Haw alone too.
She palls around with Communist dictators.
She offered to hit her own son with the family car before he was deployed.
She is clearly off her rocker. But she was unbalanced long before her son died. He enlisted, she opposed that decision.
Jake, thanks for your very compassionate and gracious post. I’d love to see more conservatives show this kind of compassion. Cindy Sheehan is obviously unbalanced. I lost my son when he was 25. Even though it was not in time of war, I could have ended up like Cindy, too, if not for the grace of God.
I sincerely hope people will let this woman get her privacy and life back, now that she has the humiliation of knowing how the lefties used her. She reminds me of Norma McCorvey—after Roe v. Wade was passed, “they” didn’t need her any more either, and gave her exactly the same boot. Godly people should pray for Cindy Sheehan. Everyone else should just have enough graciousness to get off her back, now that she’s not newsworthy anymore.