Via Dr. Myers, a moving interview with the mother of a soldier killed five days after arriving in Iraq.

Cindy Sheehan is founder and President of an organization called "Gold Star Families for Peace." In order to become a member, you have to have lost a family member during war. They are booked for speaking engagements and so forth, and Mrs. Sheehan has apparently been on TV and radio several times.

On the one hand, it's easy to write Mrs. Sheenan's activism off as the natural response of a grieving mother. If the war is just, it's just whether or not it results in grieving mothers; that's what makes it a war. However, it's important for those who support the war to have to look such women in the face and justify their sons' deaths.

Point being, it's worth a read. Except that you will probably cry.

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