On Thursday, August 18, 2005, the  Staten Island Advance ran a story with the title, “Islanders show support for nation's 'Peace Mom'”. In part the article, stated:

Displaying opposition to the war in Iraq last night, Staten Islanders hoped their silence would carry all the way to President George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas.

Nearly 60 people gathered on the steps of Borough Hall for a quiet candlelight vigil in support of Cindy Sheehan, joining hundreds of others throughout the country, lighting candles in the night and calling for an end to the war in Iraq.

Sheehan, the California mother who has been camped outside Bush's ranch since Aug. 6, has refused to leave unless and until the vacationing president meets with her to discuss what her son, Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, died fighting for.

The article, written by Ben Eben Newhouse, was very slanted in favor of Sheehan and the protestors. One military mom from Staten Island, who also happens to be a member of the Capitol Hill Coffee House forum, has written a letter to the editor of the  Staten Island Advance. The editor of that newspaper may not carry that letter, but we will.

Her sentiments reflect that of millions of Americans. They’re the people who have sons and daughters in the military, and the many, many more who support them. They’re the people ignored by the main stream media, who aren’t camping out in ditches – they’re the people who make the country  work.

 Following is the text of her letter:

Dear Editor:

I would like to respond to those "protestors" and their signs that
America is on Cindy Sheehan's side.

Please don't presume to speak for me or the rest of America who have
sons and daughters in the military. We don't think their mission is
futile. We don't think their lives and even deaths are in vain. In your
ignorance and folly, you are assuming that if it isn't tangible to you,
it's bad.

We have done good work in Iraq. We have given an oppressed country the
chance at liberty with all its pleasures and responsibilities. To leave
Iraq now would be like abandoning a newborn baby on a rock in the cold.
Hopefully, the whacko liberals would cringe at that picture (although
I'm not sure, if the baby's not wanted).

Cindy Sheehan is entitled to grieve. What she is NOT entitled to do is
spit on her son's voluntary service and sacrifice, and the voluntary
service and sacrifice of so many of his fellow soldiers, marines,
sailors and airmen.

How many of you realize that he re-enlisted VOLUNTARILY and went back
to Iraq? Doesn't that say something to you about what HE believed,
rather than what his mother, pawn of anti-war loonies, believes?

Did President Bush hold a gun to his head to enlist the first time? The
second time? No? Then maybe you should rethink your ideas about what
military service means, and what the personal sacrifices of so many
mean who VOLUNTARILY signed up to go, who have re-enlisted in droves
and who believe in what they're doing.

Before you spout that lame, tired "bring our soldiers home" line again,
why not try going to a few websites or blogs where real men and women
post about what they're doing, what they're accomplishing, and how
disappointed they are in you that you cannot believe in them and their
mission.

I don't want Cindy Sheehan anywhere close to my son's service and
possible injury or death. He is too precious to have his VOLUNTARY and
WILLING service desecrated in such a way.

Please keep your opinions limited to yourselves on your signs. Not
everyone agrees.

Sincerely,

Anastasia  

 

 

 

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