topic : Cindy Sheehan
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September 2007
By Zoltan Grossman
Recently, the Veterans for Peace led a contingent in a large community parade in Olympia, Washington. To the beat of their marching, they chanted “jodies” such as “They say it is a rich man’s war, always fought by the poor/Support the troops, let’s bring them back, let’s bring them back from Iraq.” Many in the crowd stood in respect, applauded, and flashed peace signs (with only a few flashing “half a peace sign”). I heard a mom tell her kids to clap for the vets who “want your daddy to come home from Iraq.”
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October 2005
Oct 17: Candlelight vigil at Heritage Park Fountain in support of Cindy Sheehan (Photo by Scott Yoos)
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September 2005
Grave markers at Camp Casey commemorate US troops who have been killed during the US war on Iraq.
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April 2005
by Lou Plummer
Cindy Sheehan's eyes showed no fear, only fierce determination. The co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace stepped forward and a crowd of nearly four thousand people slowly began to follow her up a steep hill and into the nation's consciousness. The mother of Specialist Casey Sheehan, a soldier who now lies in a grave in Vacaville, California, traveled all the way across the country to Fayetteville, NC, the town outside of Ft. Bragg. She came to grieve and to add her righteous anger to a growing sentiment among military families and veterans that the war in Iraq is wasting . . .
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