Coming Back
To Crawford
By Cindy Sheehan
25 August , 2005
Huffington
Post
I'm coming back to Crawford for my son.
As long as the president, who sent him to die in a senseless war, is
in Crawford, that is where I belong. I came here two and a half weeks
ago for one reason, to try and see the president and get an answer to
a very simple question: What is the noble cause that he says my son
died for?
The answer to that
question will not bring my son back. But it may stop more meaningless
deaths. Because every death is now a meaningless one. And the vast majority
of our country knows this. So why do more young men and women have to
die? And why do more parents have to lose their children and live the
rest of their lives with this unbearable grief?
The presidency is
not bigger than the people's will.
And when the people
speak out, it's the president's reponsibility to listen. He is there
to serve us, not the other way around.
This isn't about
politics. It's about what is good for America and what's best for our
security and how far this president has taken us away from both.
I'm coming back
to Crawford because -- now and forever -- this is my duty for my son,
for my other children, for other parents, and for my country.
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