http://www.youtube.com/v/ervaMPt4Ha0&autoplay=1


This was done by a 15 yr old girl. Very touching. If you haven't seen it
yet, its worth your time.

awsome

It made me cry!

I support our troops!

Yes people need to see this...

Everybody needs to see this, truely a must see.

I cried!!!

Please support our troops

First I support the Troops, my brothers. Second, they should ad the
words, " Look at the grief this unjust war has brought,"
Third, they should add the words, " how dare you exploit these brave
Americans deaths for propoganda and politics."
Fourth, " How dare you brainwash young children and all Americans alike,
into believeing these men died in a just war."

Fifth and final, "How come it is ok to show their coffins, one open, on
a video like this, and not OK to show them as they are off loaded from
Planes to the general Public?

This video is nothing more than a propoganda film distributed to further
an unjust war by politicians. Bring them out of Iraq, where "the people
they die for" are not grateful, and quit praying on the kind and
sensitive souls of our children and women for your political agenda.
This pisses me off, Thank you Soldiers for your service, but stop this
bull****.

FANTA!!!!!

I forgot to tell you to get a tissue first.

I am a proud mother of an army soldier

Awesome video.

Propaganda!!!!

A few years and you can be the proud grandmother of a soldier fighting
the wrong war for an ungrateful people!!!

you sound as if you fully understand the term ungrateful.

Published on Thursday, January 27, 2005 by the Lincoln County News
(Maine)
Mother of Soldier Slain in Iraq Speaks Out
by Kay Liss

She held up family photos of her son Casey as a toddler, at his
confirmation, as a 21-year-old in boot camp and then, the photo that
appeared in The New York Times last April, of his coffin, his brother
kissing it to say goodbye.

Many in the audience at Skidompha Library in Damariscotta on Tuesday
night were unable to hold back tears along with Cindy Sheehan, mother of
a slain American soldier in the Iraq War. Sheehan has been traveling
around the country speaking out against the war and was invited to speak
here by the newly formed Peace and Justice Coalition of Lincoln County
and Citizens Offering New Alternatives (CONA), with participation from
Veterans for Peace and the Maine Green Independent Party.


Cindy Sheehan

Opening her heart-wrenching talk, she said, “I am not a political expert
or a pundit. I’m just a broken-hearted mother.” Sheehan said she hoped
she wouldn’t offend anyone in the audience, but her purpose in speaking
out was to raise awareness of “the travesty of this war” and to help
bring the troops home.

She presented a brief biography of her son, born in 1979 in Vacaville,
Calif., an Eagle Scout and altar boy who said when he grew up he wanted
to serve and help people. He was in his third year in college when he
decided to join the army, professing an interest in becoming a warrant
officer in the OCS.

Sheehan said she was “flabbergasted” at his decision, because he was so
devoted to peace, but respected it. She remarked a number of times in
her talk that serving the country in the military is “an honorable
profession,” and that she is proud of her son, who was a hero, but that
it is this war that she feels is so wrong.

Casey became a Humvee mechanic, and was in Iraq for only two weeks when
he volunteered for a very dangerous mission. His convoy was attacked and
he was one of six soldiers killed on April 4 of 2004.

Her grief was almost unbearable, but then she said, “I knew I had to do
something to try to stop this illegal and immoral war to prevent more
soldiers from dying. People are dying every day, soldiers - but also
innocent Iraqis that our government doesn’t even count.”

Sheehan co-founded an organization Gold Star Families for Peace, which
is made up of parents, siblings and other family members of soldiers who
have died in the Iraq War. Gold Star Mothers was an organization that
began during the Second World War for mothers of slain soldiers. It has
been a tradition for mothers to put gold stars in their windows if their
son (or now daughter) had been killed in war, but the activist
connotation is more a recent evolution.

However, Sheehan said she hadn’t been aware until after starting the
organization that there was a group during the Vietnam War called Gold
Star Moms, which also formed in protest against that war.

One of the things she would like to change is how military recruiters go
about their business, going into poor neighborhoods and preying on those
who cannot afford to go to college, and offering them “the world.”

“Many kids go into the military because they can’t afford college,” she
said. “I think there should be some way to help these kids.” Also,
recruiters should give a more honest picture of what being in the
military entails, she added.

She said she doesn’t want to “just complain,” so offered other
suggestions to get involved: to write to or try to speak personally to
political representatives was particularly important. She said having an
audience recently with California Senator Barbara Boxer, who had been
against the war from the beginning, has probably made a difference in
the senator’s recent increased level of statements against the war.

Sheehan urged everyone to become more aware of what is really going on
in Iraq, to read articles on websites like CommonDreams.org and
Truthout.org. She said she hears from soldiers as to what is really
going on, “and they are not building schools and sewer systems as the
government is telling us. They are just out there killing and trying not
to be killed.”

She said the mainstream media really “failed us” in the rush to war, and
since then, has not been reporting much on the mistakes the U.S.
occupation has made, such as disbanding the Iraq army and taking away
jobs from citizens and giving them to outside contractors, creating
animosity and anger toward the Americans. The tragic problem of
inadequate armor for the troops, which is the reason her son and many
other soldiers have died or been wounded, is another travesty not
mentioned enough.

Her speaking out has not endeared her to her community, she said. “I am
a pariah in my own town. My best friend won’t even talk to me anymore,”
she said. Everyone had compassion for her when her son died, but they
don’t seem to like the idea of her protesting the war. She said she has
also been vilified in the press, accused of taking advantage of her
family’s tragedy.

Sheehan has be en on a number of television shows, including Good
Morning America, NBC and ABC. She has an article (“The Dangerous Gold
Star Families”) currently on CommonDreams.org about her group’s recent
attempt to talk to someone at the Pentagon, only to be rebuffed by
police outside the gates.

“The time for being nice is over. We have to let our leaders know what
we think. We have to help vets who have been wounded, and we have to
help kids find alternatives to being recruited to go to this war. We
have to put this war in peoples’ faces to get them to see.

“I know Casey would want me to be doing this.”



Propaganda closer to reality!!!!

fanta-

wrong war if you havent been there. ungrateful people? nah, never really
seen any of those, and brother i was all over the biggest hell on earth.

its all good, appreciate your opinion on the world.

Its sad when I know I have to fight for people in this country like
fanta

I served, they are my brothers, and I just saw a post in here regarding
how it is wrong to show the coffins of dead American Soldiers being
unloaded from an airplane. So how is this any different, except for a
Political agenda directed at the sensitivity and caring of American
children and women...

Tell me that, aye!!!

This is hypocritical when you look at it in that sense isnt it???
TRUTH is what I want to hear.....

And son I put my life out there before you were a gleam in your daddy's
eye. so dont pull that bull**** on me. Im glad you serve and I honor you
by my actions.

I realize that it takes you longer to read that article above than it
does to watch a you-tube video, but at least give that woman the same
respect as an unknown, anonymous, so-called 15 yr old girl.

Besides you dont have to fight for me. Remember you Volunteered!!!!!

Whatever bro...keep smoking ur canibus and keep telling the world how
horrible our country and government is....

They should send you to Afghanistan, You dont know that I smoke ****. so
keep on keeping on, I wont ask and you dont tell!!!

The amry is gonna go kick some a** and keep kickin a** no matter if you
like it or not...so thank everyone that backs us up no matter
what...keep supporting our brothers over seas...im out

fanta I don't think it's propaganda-

I think it is just a reminder to support those who are

there and not to forget them... alot of people tend to forget.

Knowing she was upset, Stras simply told his mother: "Mom, I have to
make my own mistakes." So she bit her tongue and did her best to support
him, attending his boot camp graduation and welcoming him home for
Christmas the first year.

Then, he was sent to Iraq, where he is a gunner in a mortar unit in
Baghdad. And that's where he spent this past Christmas - inside a tank,
with Iraqis throwing rocks at him, Chay said.

Hearing that Iraqis didn't even want him there - and the way they
treated him on Christmas - was the turning point for Chay. She already
belonged to the anti-war group, having joined to feel connected to other
military families via their Web site. Now she was ready to take a more
active role in the anti-war movement.