Cindy's Legacy -- she's having a profound effect

[CatWoman]

like the proverbial snowball rolling down the mountainside.

I just posted this story in LBN, but want everyone to see it:

NEW YORK In a departure from past policies, newspapers around the country, with the U.S. death toll in Iraq again soaring, increasingly are reporting the antiwar sentiments of family members of the deceased in their coverage of funerals. The latest example comes from the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader on Sunday.

It concerns the funeral of Lance Cpl. Chase Johnson Comley. The story notes that “in a departure from the norm in Kentucky -- one of the reddest of red states -- some of Comley's relatives, including a few sitting in the front pews, have spoken out strongly against the Bush administration and the war that took the 21-year-old Marine's life.”

Comley's grandmother, 80-year-old Geraldine Comley of Versailles, described herself as a former Republican stalwart who is "on a rampage" against the president and the war.

"When someone gets up and says 'My son died for our freedom,' or I get a sympathy card that says that, I can hardly bear it," Geraldine Comley said. She added that she would like nothing better than to join Cindy Sheehan, who has been holding a protest outside President Bush's ranch in Texas.

http://209.11.49.220/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001014529&imw=Y

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. It just takes one person to speak out, and others will feel ready to speak

out too.

[FreedomAngel82]

7. I agree

One person with courage. Thank God for Cindy. She really is a hero. Even if she isn't in the history books I know I'll someday teach my children about her bravery for going up against the mad-man. I hope the family can join Mrs. Sheehan if they see fit. Does anybody know how many Iraq war vet families are down there who lost someone?

[Tesla]

2. This broke my heart...

"I've never seen my father cry, but I've heard him cry this week," she said in an interview. "And he will look at the picture of Chase that's on their hearth and say 'George Bush killed my grandson.'"

[FreedomAngel82]

8. Aww

:cry: George Bush has killed many people's grandson's and granddaughter's. :cry:

[deadparrot]

3. Glad to hear that I'm not the only one sick of the "dying for our freedom"

meme.

Bless Mrs. Comley, Cindy, and any others out there who find the courage to speak out against a serious wrong.

[FreedomAngel82]

9. It really is disgusting

And then you hear about their Constiution they're building and it really isn't any better then what they had!

[deadparrot]

10. After reading the WP article,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081300853.html

especially the parts about the constitution, I got sick to my stomach. Our soldiers, and Iraqis of every stripe, are dying for NOTHING. There's no improvement whatsoever to Hussein's dictatorship.

[FreedomAngel82]

12. Exactly!

I wonder about comparisson's. Has anybody compared their old ways to the new Constiution? I understand that Hussein had religious freedom and all types of people could worship in his country. I remember reading the first group of people to leave when we took out Saddam were the Christians. I wonder if they'll still be okay under this new Constiution (and other minority groups). I doubt anything is changing for women. *sigh* And I wonder if they have any Bush loyalists.

[Generic Other]

4. Thanks for posting this

I posted a link on the "ALL DU Cindy thread"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4346891

[Solly Mack]

5. AFN (air force network) did a story on the Crawford Peace House

earlier today and the gist of it was that Cindy Sheehan was not alone in her feelings about the war and her son's death. That many other military families feel the exact same way.

Which, considering it was AFN, was very surprising....and very telling

[Rebellious Republican]

6. Being from KY myself, this is very telling, Versailles is the uber rich

area near the capitol, Frankfurt. Think Kentucky Derby, think ultra wealthy and Royalty, like Queen Elizabeth, and Presidents visiting for the Derby. This where they go to hang out!

:woohoo:

[RickWn]

11. Perhaps this limerick resonates

Over at DailyKos, a regular Sunday feature is the Topical Limericks diary sponsored by Dood Abides. This morning, I contributed one which perhaps might resonate with other affected families. I'm a Vietnam vet and, like Kerry and Hackett, came home from a pointless war with a whole new attitude.

Ode to Cindy and Casey

Cindy was mopping the floor
When the ominous knock at her door
The Army had come
With news of her son
As to thousands of mothers before

The wails of her cries were not muffled
As family and friends with her huddled
The pain of a mother
Whose love like no other
For all, an emotional struggle

Gently she tucked it away
The flag she'd been given that day,
This folded Old Glory
Does not tell the story
Of my son, in this home, who once played

Many more months would remain
Before Cindy emerged once again
She wanted no doubts
And had to find out
That Casey had not died in vain

She is camping out there not for fun
Nor, to have her words twisted and spun
A mother to speak
With a president meek
As the sun rose again over Arlington