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Cindy, Please Stop The Madness!

Okay, I think I’ve had enough of Cindy Sheehan. I understand that any time a parent loses a child it is a devastating event in one’s life but this is getting ridiculous. I just want to make one thing clear.

Military service is strictly voluntary except when a draft is in place, and we haven’t had that for forty years.

I would be willing to bet that there is a photo in the Sheehan household the day that her son Casey graduated from boot camp, with smiles on all their faces. Where was her concern then if she is so devastated now? Becoming a member of our Armed Forces is a risk. It doesn’t matter if it is peacetime or not.

I am sorry she lost her son, as I am sorry that any lives are lost. But her son died for our Country, and that is a very honorable thing. He died to protect the freedoms that we all enjoy and take for granted at times. For her to ridicule our Nation in this way is truly un-American, and I think it’s about time for her to grieve quietly on her own, and let our President go back to running this country. It’s not like he doesn’t have enough on his plate now that Katrina devastated the whole gulf coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, as well as other states along the path of its destruction.