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Cindy Sheehan of Gold Star Families for Peace spoke in Seattle this past weekend and was the guest of honor at a fundraiser for Rep. Jim McDermott's legal fund Sunday, naming the congressman as one of her heroes and a man who was right on all the progressive issues. After the pleasantries, she sat down with everyone for a Q&A session with the congressman and the other guests. In person, Cindy Sheehan hardly seems like someone who would have started a national media firestorm. Her presence is soothing, her voice is gentle no matter the topic and while she isn't shy, she doesn't act like someone who's trying to draw attention to herself. When she mentions that she was a Catholic youth minister for 8 years, no one is surprised.
She talks about what started her determination to speak out about the war, saying that one of the last straws was the president's declaration that the U.S. had to stay in Iraq to honor the sacrifice of the fallen, like her son Casey. "I don't know any mother who lost her child who would want another mother's child to die. Casey died saving his buddies, he wouldn't want anyone else to die," she said.
