Cindy Sheehan Says She's Going Home

by Karen Hatter | May 29, 2007 at 04:20 am

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Cindy Sheehan, founder of Gold Star Families for Peace, on Memorial Day, May 28, 2007, posted what she called her “....resignation letter as the face of the American anti war movement'' at the Daily Kos.

Cindy Sheehan's son, Casey, was 24 years old when he was killed in battle in Baghdad in April 2004. In August 2005, Mrs. Sheehan camped outside President George W. Bush's home in Crawford, Texas, demanding a meeting with the president.

Although the president did not meet with her, she became a leading figure of opposition to the Iraq War, calling for the powers that be to bring the troops home.

In the post at the Daily Kos, entitled 'Good Riddance Attention Whore', a combination characterizing insults hurled and comments made to her, she writes:

The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing. His precious lifeblood drained out in a country far away from his family who loves him, killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think. I have tried every since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful. Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives. It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years and Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy and that hurts the most.

Siting the toll she has paid, having “sacrificed” her 29 year marriage, time away from her family and her health as casualties of her activism and the expense, Mrs. Sheehan says, “I am going to take whatever I have left and go home.”

www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/28/12530/1525