Cindy Shehan Crazy maybe but she fights for the memory of a dead son would yours?

Question

The young hope they fight a just war,they have much to learn,they still dont know real evil,they put to much faith in old men who really dont care if they live or die.still it would be nice to have a mother or dad who cared so much,till you had time to learn.

Answer 1

Actually she fights for her own beiefs. Her son joined the Army in 2000 and REENLISTED AFTER the war that his mother so desperately hates had began. Even his father, her husband, left her because of her lunatic antics that she has done for the last 3 years.

She in know way fights for the memory of a dead son.

I guess I know very little though as I am a veteran of OEF (2x) and OIF.

EDIT: My mother who is now deceased would have been as outraged as Sheehan. BUT she would have kept her opinions to herself and out of respect for MY DECISIONS she would have not made a mockery out of our troops and country. We had the very opposing views on the war and politics in general but she signed the paper for me to originally enlist in the DEP when I was 17 because she knew I would when I turned 18 no matter what. It is better to show your son support then to make a case for your personal views based upon his death.

Answer 2

Cindy Shehan, almost as bad as Jane Fonda except for the death of her son, who was by the way there voluntarily just like the rest of us who went. Now does she not only hate President Bush, the republicans, the democrats folded according to her and as you can see below she is not liking the USA to much either, mabye she should renounce her citizenship and go somewhere where they want her. I understand being unhappy that her son died, who wouldn't, but to do what she did is the ultimate bad thing against her country, no wonder her husband divorced her.


"Sheehan wrote in her online diary on the Daily Kos blog: "Good-bye America ... you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it. "It's up to you now."

Answer 3

Bob thats a despicable thing to say. Your disparging remarks about a young MAN who fought for what he believed in.

Sheehan is a pawn used by others for their gain. If she loved and respected her son she would not dishonor his memory like this. Sheehan and her ilk are traitors.

Bob it does not sound like you have spent much time in the military, the young never hope they fight ANY KIND of war just or otherwise. They go because they choose to enlist, and their buddies are going over there.

But then you have the non hackers who after enlisting decide the war is unjust and they want to go to Canada...but I digress.

Are you by any chance in higher education?

You know what they say.

Answer 4

Mine would not have...knowing that I re-enlisted four times meant that I was doing what I loved to do...(Sheehan's son re-enlisted, so that pretty much means he liked the Army)...why are you not complaining about Clinton sending soldiers to die in Kosovo or Bosnia...oh wait that does not fit your Bush bashing...Soldiers have the choice of joining the military or not...if they joined after 9/11 they knew what they were getting into...if you do the math, only a very small % of vets disagree with the war...like 0.001%...and the ones who do are probably the same ones that where whiners while they were in...the ones always saying, "..SSG why do I have to pull duty on a holiday..." or "...SSG why do I have to do PT so early..." You'll find these knuckleheads never protest near a military base...why? Because they would get their butts kicked...

Answer 5

My husbands mother is not for this war (or any war for that matter,) he also has an aunt & uncle who are against Bush and anything Bush does.

After seeing all the stuff Cindy Sheehan has done he asked me to promise him that if he dies to make it clear to his family that he did what he felt was right, he volunteered for it, and he hopes that they are just proud of him. He said to do what I can to stop them if they act like this women did. He really needs to put it in writing.

That said, I think it's horrible what the media did to this women. They took a mother in the worst of her grief and used her. Then when the excitement of her rantings went down, they just dropped her. I can't imagine losing a child, I think apart of me would die too. But she needs to realize he volunteered and knew the possibilities. He didn't have to join. And now people need to let her grieve normally.

Answer 6

Her son was a volunteer. She is disrespecting the decisions he made for his life by carrying on like she does.

There are only two options, here: Either her son entered the military because he believed in the fight, in which case, Cindy is a monster, OR he went in because he wanted college money, in which case, she obviously didn't do enough for him while he was alive. Either way, she's ridiculous.

Answer 7

Why could she be ashamed. She opposes the conflict, and protests against it, as is her real. i think that regardless of if he disagreed together with her, he would part together with his mom over you. P.S. Why do you employ the abbrieviation Sgt. Maj. while the superb abbrev. for the army is SGM? And in case you have been a Marine Sergent important, why did you employ the term soldier fairly of Marine? I scent bullshit.

Answer 8

Shehan is an idiot, not only did she loose her son in Iraq, but because of her selfishness she lost her husband and the rest of her family, good riddance.

Answer 9

Cindy Sheehan did NOT fight for the memory of her son. Cindy Sheehan dissed the memory of her son by becoming a laughing stock and an anti-war centerpiece whereby countless numbers of kooks swarmed around her, further smearing the memory of her brave son.

Answer 10

I would hate to have a parent who shamelessly profits from my death and uses my death as an excuse to not only negate my sacrifice but insult everything I stood for and volunteered to preserve. I would especially find it insulting if in this case the parent in question didn't even raise me--my other parent and stepparent did (as it was with Cindy and her son Casey).

Luckily, not only did I come home from Iraq safe and sound, but even if I hadn't, my parents are nowhere near that tasteless. Fortunately, most parents of those who have lost children in the Iraq war aren't that tasteless either.