"Normal life ended for Protesting mother"-Yahoo News

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Nice to see this kind of publicity for Mrs. Sheehan. She is such and awesome woman and mother.:applause:


Normal Life Ended for Protesting Mother By MARTHA MENDOZA, AP National Writer
1 hour, 20 minutes ago



VACAVILLE, Calif. - Before her son was killed in Iraq, before she began a peace vigil outside President Bush's Texas ranch, before she became an icon of the anti-war movement and the face of grieving mothers, there was a time when Cindy Sheehan's life was, by all appearances, incredibly normal.

She grew up in a suburb of Los Angeles, and married her high school sweetheart, Patrick Sheehan. They had four babies, one almost every other year. They drove their growing clan in a huge, yellow station wagon nicknamed the "BananaMobile." She volunteered at a Vacaville church and later, as the children grew, she worked there.

Normal life ended for Cindy Sheehan in April 2004, when her oldest son Casey, 24, a father of twin girls, was killed in Iraq.

First, she says, "I was a Mom in deep shock and deep grief."

Then, two months later, came what she considered to be a disturbingly placid meeting with President Bush. While she found him to be a "man of faith," she also said later that he seemed "totally disconnected from humanity and reality." And when she later heard him speak of soldiers' deaths as "noble," Sheehan felt she had to do something.

"The shock has worn off and deep anger has set in," she said.





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1. I wish Sheehan would run for Feinstein's Senate seat in California

I don't care if she has no experience in politics. Any person of conscience could do better in representing me than Dino Feinstein.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. This article has alrady been locked. It has a mistake in it. Casey, a

virgin at the time of his death, never fathered children. His sisters are not twins either. Not sure where the reporter got this idea.

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3. yeah i was thinking that too

but its still a good article on her.

[Clark2008]

4. I noticed that, too.

I just heard Cindy say that the other night, so I thought that maybe I'd misunderstood and that she meant he'd been a virgin UNTIL he got married and fathered the twins.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. No, because I recall her saying she almost wished he hadn't, because he

missed out on that part of his life. But if he hadn't waited, he wouldn't have been Casey.