Cindy Sheehan: A Markerless Grave in Vacaville

Cindy Sheehan: A Markerless Grave in Vacaville

I strongly urge you to read this article by Ms. Sheehan. It is important if you have a cynical view of her campaign to end the war in Iraq. She continues to follow her heart dispite the voracious, interminable attacks by the warmongers of the current administration and the rest of the military/industrial complex. Here is a short excerpt from her article.

"I will tell the world why Casey has no marker yet. In the first place, does anyone who is attacking me know how Casey was brought home from Iraq? We picked him up in the United loading dock in a cardboard box and he was off-loaded into a hearse without one honor guard. We had to wait for about a half hour on a curb near the United freight area for his one escort, who rode from Dover Air Force Base in a seat, while Casey was treated as an over-sized piece of luggage. Has anybody held her other sobbing children who are sitting on a curb in San Francisco, waiting for the remains of their big brother to be carried over to the dock by a forklift?
Our so-called, illegitimate president has never attended a funeral, nor can families see the pictures of their loved ones as they are hauled like freight with flags on them from an immoral war zone. WE don't see them because Mama Bush doesn't want to 'bother her pretty mind' with the images. America doesn't want to be bothered, either. We had a Casualty Officer who abandoned us when our mortuary refused to pay the cemetery and told us that the 'government sent the money to the mortuary, so now it is your problem. You may have to sue the mortuary.' Our government discards and dishonors its own."

Does that make you proud to be an American? Knowing what little regard this administration has for the men and women dying to protect and increase their profits? Not me. I am disgusted with the outrageous actions of Bush and his gang.