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Did The Anti-War Movement Martyr a Grieving Mother? By Kevin Fobbs When Cindy Sheehan first camped down on August 6th in the president's hometown of Crawford, Texas, she was a barely noticed footnote on the daily news. Here was a grieving mother who had lost her son in the Iraqi War. Most of the nation who heard about her came to feel a sense of lost themselves, because the media was showing this tortured mother's soft voice, cracking at times as she presented her seemingly innocent case to America, with her target squarely set on the President of the United...

Despite the attention lavished on Cindy Sheehan by the media, none of these "journalists" have bothered to ask her about her group--the Gold Star Families For Peace. If you will check out their website, you will find that it is very short on members. Of those listed besides Cindy Sheehan herself, there is only Linda Bright (who is a member of the group, but not a Gold Star Mother, apparently) and Nadia McCaffrey. That appears to be it. Two Gold Star Mothers. Two members. You may remember Nadia McCaffrey as the woman who got a lot of media attention by...

Dear MFSO I used to have a son in the Army. Spc Casey Austin Sheehan was killed in an ambush in Sadr City on 04/04/04. Our family was against this "war" from the beginning. We cannot believe that the American people think this is a good thing. But our son joined the Army in 08/00. He loved it and did well and he was a good soldier. He reenlisted for another 4 years and was looking forward to changing his MOS. He was a mechanic, and according to his superior officers a great one, but he was going to go...