Why I started the ALL Cindy DU thread

[Generic Other]

Someone asked me why I would spend 12 days of my life monitoring and collecting in one place all the information available to me on the internet about the vigil in Crawford Texas. It seemed to that person a worthless endeavor. I'm sure there are others wondering why a complete stranger might be motivated to take up Cindy's cause so singlemindedly as to spend all the time and effort necessary to collect a week's worth of articles, photos, interviews and information concerning Cindy Sheehan's peaceful occupation of Crawford in one thread on Democratic Underground.

Part of the reason I did this was my sense that Americans have bad memories. We forget tomorrow what was in our heads today. We cannot trust our own memory of events or anyone else's. So many of us are detached from what is happening in our country, moving through our lives without awareness and thus without memory of events that happen around us, critical life-altering events. We are being swept up and carried into the waters of Lethe, one of the three rivers of Hades, the River of Oblivion.

I have seen Cindy Sheehan's face before this week. Last year, she came to my town to see Bush. She came to Fort Lewis to meet a president who didn't even remember her son's name. I remember her crying afterwards on the local news. Witnessing her anguish expressed so openly on my television screen made my own eyes burn with tears, tears of shame for what my country had taken from Cindy and her family.

Most of us have no clear memory of why we went to war, why we asked Cindy's son to sacrifice his life. The coffins have been erased from our consciousness, the costs of war downplayed and soon forgotten.

But I couldn't forget her face--a mother who had lost her child, and I didn't want anyone else to forget her either.

Cindy Sheehan--ghost, banshee, wandering spirit arrived in Crawford from the grave's edge to speak to the living and remind us all of what had been forgotten.

8/19 ALL DU Cindy threads DAY 13
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4396945



And that is why I kept a record, so no one could say they didn't remember. Or that it didn't happen that way.

[eleny]

1. Thank you, GO

Your posting here is also an important part of the record.

[FogerRox]

2. recommended-- you are the definition of "You ROCK"

[MuseRider]

3. Thank you.

I started a thread in GD this morning. I totally forgot that I could have just added it to yours. Sorry. You are doing a great job, it is important. Thank you.

[Nite Owl]

4. Thanks for doing this GO

I don't know how many times I remember reading something but can't find it as a source.

[Generic Other]

5. You and me both!

;)

[Spike from MN]

6. Thank you GO. You make it soooo much easier for me to

follow the stories on Cindy. DU is so active that it's hard to keep up. It's great that you're doing this and I thank you for all the time and effort you have put into it.

[Generic Other]

8. So glad to hear it makes things easier to keep straight!

I'm just the clearing house posting DUers' amazing efforts.

[Spazito]

7. I very much appreciate your All Cindy threads!

I have used them instead of 'search' with key words if I am looking for something with regard to Cindy and Camp Casey. Thank you for doing them!

[Generic Other]

9. Yay! I haven't tried that yet!

Glad to hear it's working!

[meganmonkey]

10. I think you are doing a wonderful service

Thank you!

It is much like the daily thread in the ER&D forum. It helps us keep track of things, of what happens when...It is a great resource,just liek the Cindy threads.

:yourock:

[anarchy1999]

11. You truly have not received the credit you deserve and I applaud you

and thank you. You may have even sacrificed your eyesight for the hours you have put into your documentation of this month.

Thank you.
anarchy1999

[Generic Other]

12. It's okay. I had LASIK surgery this year!

20/20

:HUG:

[Maddy McCall]

13. Thanks so much, G.O. for your efforts.

I have bookmarked the thread, and will use it years from now to refer to when I have a memory lapse.

Bless you. You are a sweetheart.

[Generic Other]

16. Your frog smiled and Grovelbot mooned me! WTF?

Is Grovelbot stalking me now??

:rofl:

[gatorboy]

14. Go, go G.O.!

EOM

[Generic Other]

15. I gave your cartoons out at my Cindy vigil 350+ folks said you rocked!

They wanted to know what paper you worked for!!

:thumbsup:

[titoresque]

17. This is awesome and thank you!

Thank you so much for this! You are right about our memories. I'm even guilty of such things as leaving my lunch in the microwave oven and forgetting it till the next a.m. when I go to re-heat a cup of coffee. Geez!

[bpilgrim]

18. thank you Generic Other!

it came in very handy for me tracking down all the information about what was going on with this very important story since the M$MWs are useless.

great job & thanks for sharing :toast: :loveya:

peace

[SaveAmerica]

19. Adding my thanks, and the thanks of my family, if I spent the time

it would take searching for all the threads, I'd be on the computer all the time. Thank you very much Generic Other!!

[ray of light]

20. Thank you

[Shredr]

21. I have really appreciated your work

And read many threads I know I wouldn't have had you not been doing it.

Thank you.

[nofurylike]

22. thank you for you deep devotion! huge help, GO!! eom

[Lisa]

23. you're providing a valuable service!

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise!

Remember that scene in "Animal Farm" where Clover the horse is staring at the writing on the side of the barn -- she's sure that it used to say something different, but she just cannot remember what.

The Internets are a lot like that. I've tried looking for information a year or two after the fact, and a lot of it simply disappears. By collecting the threads like this, you are making it MUCH easier for us to check back. The "9/11 Timeline" has a similar approach.

Information is well-nigh useless if you can't find what you want, and get to it quickly.

Thanks again, Generic Other!

[DeepModem Mom]

24. Wonderful post -- thank you, GO. nt