Operation Truth re: Cindy Sheehan

[Miss Chybil]

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A Mother's Request for the President
Cindy Sheehan, mother of a Soldier killed in Iraq, has been holding vigil outside President Bush's vacation home in Texas, waiting for a chance to talk to the Commander in Chief.

Click Here for more about Cindy Sheehan. Two OpTruth member vets offer their thoughts:


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"I didn't raise my son to be a soldier,
I raised him up to be mydarling boy
I never want my son to kill a soldier,
to rob another mothers' darling boy." Unknown, circa 1913



Those lyrics were from a very popular song that mothers were singing before the United States entered World War I. A fact of war is that war causes death. And death causes grief, and mothers feel the pain of outliving their children. The military knows this. During World War II, the Army sent a telegram. The Navy and Marine Corps sent an officer and a chaplain to the families home. Now all the branches send a casualty assistance officer and a chaplain.

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