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• For months now, I have been forced to watch, and gag on  the the antics of Gold Star Mother, Cindy Sheehan. From my perspective Cindy Sheehan is "a nobody", a heartless user  who gets personal gratification by basking in the spotlight of a  dead son whose memory she chooses to dishonor. This woman, and her entourage  have so perverted the scenario, that while "Cindy" Sheehan has become a name recognized throughout the land, her hero son's name has faded into obscurity. Before reading further, answer this question. "Was Cindy's son named, (a) Sean, (b) Casey, (c) Michael, (d) Patrick (e) Kelly (f) Kevin ?"
    
• Most commentators have noted that because she lost her son in Iraq, she has a special right to feel bitter about the war and to dislike George W. Bush. As a practical matter, anybody can be against the war and dislike the Commander-in-Chief.  The dead son gives her no more rights than anybody else -- except perhaps "the right" to dishonor his memory with inpunity!
   
• Others, have commented that she is a not too bright  puppet of the left wing, who is, in her grief, allowing herself to be used for political purposes. That has some basis in fact. But it does not explain her underlying motivation.
   
• I see her as a calculating,  self-serving maggot, who is eating at her dead son's legacy to satisfy her own obsessive need for self aggrandizement -- and who, without so much as a second thought, willingly defiles the memory of Casey and the values he died for.
   
• As combat veteran. I was proud to serve and my parents were proud to have me do so. I know that if I had been killed, my mother might have done many things, but she never would have dishonored me and the things that I lived and died for. No real mother who loved a  son fallen in combat, would use his death as a stairway to personal notoriety.
   
• Although I did not know Casey, I am proud that America has such men and I salute him as a fallen hero! Will Cindy ever do the same? I doubt it, because that would make her no different than the thousands of devoted mothers, fathers, wives and children who feel compelled to honor their fallen hero as they mourn him. Were Cindy to honor Casey, she would no longer stand out from the crowd. For this miserable excuse for a mother, that would be intolerable. She would cease to be treated as a rock star and would fade back into the boring void from whence she came.

Alan M. Kaplan

10/01/05