Happy Mothers Day to Cindy Sheehan!

We love you!
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Happy mother's day Cindy....We love you.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3270611
http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/2008/05/11/mothers-day-2008peaceful-idealism-vs-political-pragmatism/

Mother’s Day 2008:
Peaceful Idealism vs. Political Pragmatism


Candidate for the Eighth Congressional District, Cindy Sheehan,
with two of her youngest constituents that she hopes to protect
from the “carnage of the war-machine.”
Photo via Cindy Sheehan

By Cindy Sheehan

May 11, 2008

As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace…
- From Julia Ward Howe’s 1870 Mother’s Day Proclamation.

Sadly, this is the fifth Mother’s Day since Casey was killed in Iraq on April 04, 2004. The people who told me that “time will heal” were wrong, or maybe it just takes more time? I have spoken to many mothers who buried their child years ago, however, that tell me it does not get any easier. I suspect the mothers who have buried children are probably right.

On this Mother’s Day, though, I am reflecting on all kinds of moms. Some women never have children and it seems that their lives are complete. Some women desperately want to have children, but for some reason, cannot. Some women have lost their only child to the ravenous war machine and they somehow go on. One specific mother has her family intact and can callously sign blank checks to pay for war (that are really nothing but death warrants for other people’s children) with only the life and health of her political party in her heart. Another mother can talk about “obliterating” an entire innocent country filled with mothers and children without even blinking her eyes that only shed crocodile tears at the appropriate moments.

Some of us are lucky enough to have had loving moms and some of us have had mothers who were cold and distant. Other moms are abusive, while some have been abused. Our world is made up of all kinds of women some of which are suited to be mothers some of which are suited to political life; some both: many neither.

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light as a nation. we love you and hope you are well.