It just occurred to me: Cindy Sheehan was the first #Occupier.

[LizW]

65. I had not thought of Cindy in a while

Interesting that you should mention her right now, Will.

I just finished Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. It was assigned to my high school son by his English teacher, and I was a little surprised. Then I remembered that I was asked to read Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun when I was in high school and the Viet Nam war was still going on.

So I picked up a new copy of Johnny and found that Cindy Sheehan wrote the forward to the recent edition. It is wrenching to read. It brought back so much anger and guilt and helplessness that I had pushed down and forgotten. While I've been blithely raising my two sons to young adulthood the last seven years, Cindy was still mourning her lost one.

I think a lot of people recoil from Cindy (as one said above "she rubs me the wrong way&quot because she forces us to face how angry and helpless we were, and are, about Iraq.