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Ms. Sheehan now flaunts her son's memory and dishonors the country he served, as well as the President who was his commander-in-chief. She wants to be a celebrity in a ditch in Crawford. She needs medical help just as those mothers with Munchausen by Proxy must have help.

p>As the mother of a son in the military I can only pray that she is healed. She is hurting so many others and making the war more dangerous to those serving there now by giving our enemies fodder. br> -- Beverly Gunn br> Texas /p> p> Cindy Sheehan has become, as some others have suggested, the poster child for surrender, giving up on our policy of support for Iraq. Americans though don't like surrender as an option. Our exit from Viet Nam was supported by many Americans because the withdrawal was viewed as a corrective action to a wrong or failed policy. Had the withdrawal been viewed as surrender, I doubt nearly as many would have supported it. Fortunately for us, Ms. Sheehan and her handlers on the left don't realize that they have framed their anti-war protest in the wrong light and that Americans detest giving up. So let the spectacle continue. br> -- Howard Hughes /p> p> Is it only me or do you a disconnect between a son who volunteers for the service, writes home that he is proud to serve his country, and a mother who pees all over his sacrifice when he is no longer here to defend himself? Where is the father of this man, Casey Sheehan? br> -- Annette Cwik /p> p> Cindy Sheehan's grief has been made to seem a lunatic symbol of the anti-war movement. Perhaps at one time she would have taken to her bed with doctor prescribed laudanum to dull her pain. Today, drugs are passe, and becoming part of the entertainment industry, that as our opiate of choice, might do the job for her. Yet, guys, to trash grieving mothers, even as they trash themselves, does not seem quite the thing.

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