No Marine I know believes that liberals and “activists” speaks for him or her. And if you come across any Army soldiers that are "upset" that they are fighting an "unjust" war, most of the time you will also find a Reservist that is simply angry that his life was disrupted and he had to actually earn his paycheck.
http://www.vaiw.org/vet/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1767
How do you explain all the Iraq Veterans who are at Camp Casey?
And as far as indy dishonoring her son, here is her answer:
"I want to tell you a little bit about Casey because this whole movement is because of him and because of the others that have sacrificed themselves. The hardest thing for me to hear, I don’t care about them talking about me being a crackpot or a media whore, or a tool of the left, you know. I’m like if I truly was a media whore do you think I would like maybe get myself fixed up a little bit before I went on? That doesn’t bother me at all, but what bothers me so much is when they say I am dishonoring my son’s memory by what I’m doing, that my son would be ashamed of me or what they really like to say is that I’m *******, or ********, or spitting on his grave. And look what Casey, look what Casey has started. You know, I’m here because of Casey, we’re all here because of Casey and you know literally there is, there is over 2000 of our brave young people and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis and I know they are behind us, and I see them, all their faces on your faces.
But Casey was such a gentle kind loving person. He never even got in one fist fight his whole life. Nobody even hated him enough to punch him let alone kill him, and that’s what George Bush did. He put our kids in another person’s country and Casey was killed by insurgents. He wasn’t killed by terrorists. He was killed by Shiite militia who wanted him out of the country, when Casey was told he was going to be welcomed with chocolate and flowers as a liberator. Well, the people of Iraq saw it differently. They saw him as an occupier.
Casey, I want you guys to know about him. You guys know he was an altar boy for 10 years. You guys know he was an eagle scout. You guys know he was an honor student. You guys know he was a very brave person who was scared out of his mind on April 4th, but he went anyway because he said, “Where my chief goes, I go.” But you don’t know the little boy. He used to come up behind me. He used to wrap his arms around my legs. He’d kiss me on the butt and he’d say, “I wuv you mama.” And if he wasn’t doing that, he’d walk by and he’d go “dinus ha mama" and that meant, “What are you doing mama?” Every night we’d put him to bed. Every night he would say, “Thank you Mom. This was the best day of my life.”
There are a couple of funny stories. Once when he wasn’t even 2 it was Easter Sunday and we were all at mass and we were all jammed into one pew, you know there was a bunch of us and the church was full, and we were standing up and we sang the “Lamb of God.” We were Catholic and we went to kneel down, and as soon as we knelt down Casey stood up on one of the kneelers and at the top of his voice he goes, “I’m Popeye the sailor man,” and everybody in the whole church was cracking up, and so from then on people at our church called him “Popeye.” They’d go, “Hey there goes Popeye.”
And another cute story was when he was in kindergarten he went to the Catholic school where we went to church and he went to afternoon so we couldn’t pull in the parking lot, so we’d have to drive around looking for a place to park. So we were driving around one time and he goes, “Oh mama there’s a place,” and I said “Oh honey we can’t park there it’s handicapped,” and he goes “Oh, we’re not handicapped we’re Catholic.”
And then, he thought there were only two religions in the world and you guys might know for those of you who grew up Catholic, it’s Catholic and public. They thought that those were the two religions. When Casey—in his rebellious years—when we told him something he didn’t agree with or whatever, this was the extent of his talking back to us, “thssst.” You know seriously this kid was just, just an amazing person and we were so shocked when he joined the Army.
I mean, that would have been the last thing we would have expected from Casey, but also the first thing because he always wanted to help. He always wanted to serve. He thought he was giving something back to his country and community, also having been lied to by his recruiter. So, then for my boy to be killed in a war -- I don’t know if you moms did the same thing, but when I would nurse him I would promise him I would never let him go to war, you know, and I broke that promise to him.
So this is the boy who they say I’m dishonoring by what I do and I know when I get up with Casey, like he went there first before me. When I get up, he’s gonna say, “Good job Mom.” (applause) He’s not going to say, he’s not going to say, “Why’d you make me spin in my grave,” you know. And I can just hear him saying “George Bush you are really an idiot. You didn’t know what you were doing when you killed me. You didn’t know what you were getting into.” And I’m sure Casey’s up there with Ken and all the others and they’re just going, “Wow, did these guys have moms? They didn’t know that this was going to happen when they killed us?”
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"He used to call me every day from Ft. Hood. I miss that. And Karen knows like probably for almost a year after he was killed every time the phone rang I’d think, “Oh that’s Casey.” And so it just like hits you about 50 times a day that you’re never going to talk to them, or see them again. And that’s why I do what I do, because I can’t bear the thought of another mother having to go through the pain that I’m going through. And that’s the only reason I do it. So that’s what we’re here for. We’re here because we want to make it so our kids, their deaths stand for peace and love, and this is what is at Camp Casey. "
(from Cindy Sheehan speech on her return to Camp Casey
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Exclusive_Cindy_Sheehan_speaks_to_crowd_at__0825.html)
