Cindy Sheehan has written her farewell letter to the peace movement.
I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children and try to regain some of what I have lost. I will try to maintain and nurture some very positive relationships that I have found in the journey that I was forced into when Casey died and try to repair some of the ones that have fallen apart since I began this single-minded crusade to try and change a paradigm that is now, I am afraid, carved in immovable, unbendable and rigidly mendacious marble.
Camp Casey has served its purpose. It’s for sale. Anyone want to buy five beautiful acres in Crawford , Texas ? I will consider any reasonable offer. I hear George Bush will be moving out soon, too...which makes the property even more valuable.
This is my resignation letter as the "face" of the American anti-war movement. This is not my "Checkers" moment, because I will never give up trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the empire of the good old US of A, but I am finished working in, or outside of this system. This system forcefully resists being helped and eats up the people who try to help it. I am getting out before it totally consumes me or anymore people that I love and the rest of my resources.
Good-bye America ...you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it.
As I mentioned here, I'm pretty sure this period of wallowing in anger has pretty thoroughly blocked her ability to move through the grieving process. Grieving for the loss of a child is probably one of the hardest things to do, and this won't have made it any easier. Perhaps now, she can move on to the next phases of grief, and achieve some peace for herself.
And the Anchoress has some comments on this, including:
Note: You’ll not be surprised to note that newspaper reports are carefully editing Sheehan’s goodbye letter to omit her criticisims of the left and the Democrats. The press is ever-vigilant to insure that no dross touches their favored ones.
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