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"GW Chimpzilla" |
| Date: |
25 Aug 2005 02:03:12 PM |
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Cindy Sheehan's Wednesday Night Speech |
Cindy Sheehan: "Hi. Isn't she amazing? (applause) Do you guys mind if I sit
down too? This has been a pretty amazing day. Oops, did I do that. Oh, okay. I
was watching Jon Stewart the other night. I haven't watched TV for a long time
and he had Chris Wallace on from Fox News, I think, and they were talking about
what's happening out here and they were talking about well Cindy's gone, her
mom had a stroke, and then they said that Joan Baez gave a concert last night
and Jon Stewart said, "Well apparently they are trying to stop Vietnam." You
know and that kind of offended me because maybe if we had really stopped
Vietnam, Iraq wouldn't have happened (applause). You know we, I think it was
such a long struggle that after Vietnam, I'm not going to take any credit or
blame for this because I was really young, it was just like well we got our
troops out now we don't have to make sure they never do this to our kids again.
And I am going to make sure that after our troops are brought home from Iraq,
and they will be brought back, that we're going to keep the Camp Casey movement
going and we're gonna make sure that our kids are never sent to fight a war for
power and greed. (applause)
I'm thinking, I'm thinking probably, probably the country is kind of going to
take me at my word from now on. They are going to know that I'm not going to
give up and today was really hard when I came in and saw Casey bigger than life
over there. I miss him so much and I miss him more every day, but like that
song "Joe Hill," Casey's not dead. I see him in all of your eyes and Casey will
never die. And they can kill the body, but they can't kill the love and the
spirit, and no matter how hard they try they can't do that.
I want to tell you a little bit about Casey because this whole movement is
because of him and because of the others that have sacrificed themselves. The
hardest thing for me to hear, I don't care about them talking about me being a
crackpot or a media *****, or a tool of the left, you know. I'm like if I truly
was a media ***** do you think I would like maybe get myself fixed up a little
bit before I went on? That doesn't bother me at all, but what bothers me so
much is when they say I am dishonoring my son's memory by what I'm doing, that
my son would be ashamed of me or what they really like to say is that I'm
pissing, or shitting, or spitting on his grave. And look what Casey, look what
Casey has started. You know, I'm here because of Casey, we're all here because
of Casey and you know literally there is, there is over 2000 of our brave young
people and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis and I know they are behind us,
and I see them, all their faces on your faces.
But Casey was such a gentle kind loving person. He never even got in one fist
fight his whole life. Nobody even hated him enough to punch him let alone kill
him, and that's what George Bush did. He put our kids in another person's
country and Casey was killed by insurgents. He wasn't killed by terrorists. He
was killed by Shiite militia who wanted him out of the country, when Casey was
told he was going to be welcomed with chocolate and flowers as a liberator.
Well, the people of Iraq saw it differently. They saw him as an occupier.
Casey, I want you guys to know about him. You guys know he was an altar boy for
10 years. You guys know he was an eagle scout. You guys know he was an honor
student. You guys know he was a very brave person who was scared out of his
mind on April 4th, but he went anyway because he said, "Where my chief goes, I
go." But you don't know the little boy. He used to come up behind me. He used
to wrap his arms around my legs. He'd kiss me on the butt and he'd say, "I wuv
you mama." And if he wasn't doing that, he'd walk by and he'd go "dinus ha
mama" and that meant, "What are you doing mama?" Every night we'd put him to
bed. Every night he would say, "Thank you Mom. This was the best day of my
life."
There are a couple of funny stories. Once when he wasn't even 2 it was Easter
Sunday and we were all at mass and we were all jammed into one pew, you know
there was a bunch of us and the church was full, and we were standing up and we
sang the "Lamb of God." We were Catholic and we went to kneel down, and as soon
as we knelt down Casey stood up on one of the kneelers and at the top of his
voice he goes, "I'm Popeye the sailor man," and everybody in the whole church
was cracking up, and so from then on people at our church called him "Popeye."
They'd go, "Hey there goes Popeye."
And another cute story was when he was in kindergarten he went to the Catholic
school where we went to church and he went to afternoon so we couldn't pull in
the parking lot, so we'd have to drive around looking for a place to park. So
we were driving around one time and he goes, "Oh mama there's a place," and I
said "Oh honey we can't park there it's handicapped," and he goes "Oh, we're
not handicapped we're Catholic."
And then, he thought there were only two religions in the world and you guys
might know for those of you who grew up Catholic, it's Catholic and public.
They thought that those were the two religions. When Casey--in his rebellious
years--when we told him something he didn't agree with or whatever, this was
the extent of his talking back to us, "thssst." You know seriously this kid was
just, just an amazing person and we were so shocked when he joined the Army.
I mean, that would have been the last thing we would have expected from Casey,
but also the first thing because he always wanted to help. He always wanted to
serve. He thought he was giving something back to his country and community,
also having been lied to by his recruiter. So, then for my boy to be killed in
a war -- I don't know if you moms did the same thing, but when I would nurse
him I would promise him I would never let him go to war, you know, and I broke
that promise to him.
So this is the boy who they say I'm dishonoring by what I do and I know when I
get up with Casey, like he went there first before me. When I get up, he's
gonna say, "Good job Mom." (applause) He's not going to say, he's not going to
say, "Why'd you make me spin in my grave," you know. And I can just hear him
saying "George Bush you are really an idiot. You didn't know what you were
doing when you killed me. You didn't know what you were getting into." And I'm
sure Casey's up there with Ken and all the others and they're just going, "Wow,
did these guys have moms? They didn't know that this was going to happen when
they killed us?"
You know, so Casey, he wanted to get married, everybody thought he would be a
priest, but he told me "Mom I want to have a family. I want to get married,"
and he wanted to be a deacon in the Catholic Church which you can be and be a
married person too, and he was told he could be a chaplain's assistant in the
army and when he got there they said, you know, "Well, psych is full; you have
to be a cook or a humvee mechanic," so he became a humvee mechanic.
He wanted to be an elementary school teacher. He loves kids. He loved animals.
He was a very good big brother to Andy, Karly and Janey. And his murder has
left a hole in our hearts and in our family, and it's never going to be
replaced. No matter how many wonderful people I meet, how many boys that call
me "mom," they're not Casey.
He used to call me every day from Ft. Hood. I miss that. And Karen knows like
probably for almost a year after he was killed every time the phone rang I'd
think, "Oh that's Casey." And so it just like hits you about 50 times a day
that you're never going to talk to them, or see them again. And that's why I do
what I do, because I can't bear the thought of another mother having to go
through the pain that I'm going through. And that's the only reason I do it. So
that's what we're here for. We're here because we want to make it so our kids,
their deaths stand for peace and love, and this is what is at Camp Casey. And
you know some people are saying, "Oh what are guys trying to do, recreate the
sixties?" Oh yeah, peace and love is a really bad thing. You know it's been
something that's been missing in our country for decades and I'm not ashamed,
you know, I'm not ashamed to say that this is a place where you can come and
feel loved. You know this is the place where the end of the occupation of Iraq
started. This is the place where America comes to say, "We've had enough -
enough. You might be able to lie to Congress. You might be able to lie to the
media, but you're not lying to us anymore." And this is it, this is where it's
going to begin and we're not going stop today, we're not going to stop on the
31st. We're not going stop ever, ever. We will make sure that this keeps on
going. We won't have a war, another war, in 30 or 40 years, where we'll be
saying, "Oh this is another Iraq." You know, no, it's not going to ever happen
again. It's not going to just be me. It's going to be me with the millions of
people who are behind us, making sure that that will happen. And you know when
this is going to stop? This is going to stop when the mothers say, "No, I'm not
giving my son, I'm not giving my son to you so you can kill him to line your
pockets," and that's when it's going to stop.
I felt this a lot of times before when Casey was born. I looked in his eyes and
it looked like he could tell what I was thinking. That's very disarming when
you have like a week old baby looking at you and you know he knows what you're
thinking. And I knew he was going to be a great man. I just had no idea how
great he was going to be or how much it was going to hurt me. So, thank you
Casey and thank you Ken and thank you all the others, and I know that they are
in heaven and I know that that's why this movement is growing because we have
tens of thousands of angels behind us that are supporting us, that are saying,
"Well you know we died and that was really crappy, but we hope that our deaths
are going to make the world a better place," and it's up to us to make sure
that it does. Thank you.
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| User: "GodBlessAmerica" |
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| Title: Re: Cindy Sheehan's Wednesday Night Speech (Lying *****) |
25 Aug 2005 06:26:51 PM |
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Left wing idiots. So OK we leave Iraq tomorrow. Then what? A Civil War
with radical mullahs from Iran seizing control of the Iraq oil fields.
Next, they move down into
Saudi Arabia and the world is plunged into the dark ages. You left wing
Democrats are just fucking stupid no more no less. Now we know what all
those billions
of Government school tax have done. We have created a generation of
retards in America with the Democrats leading the way.
Between the Democrats, Niggers all over TV saying the F word and
speaking ignorant English plus the mainstreaming of pervert fag butt
fuckers, China must be licking it's chops
in anticipation of knocking us off our superpower thrones
This country is fucked if the Democrats take over again we are just fucked.
GW Chimpzilla wrote:
Cindy Sheehan: "Hi. Isn't she amazing? (applause) Do you guys mind if I sit
down too? This has been a pretty amazing day. Oops, did I do that. Oh, okay. I
was watching Jon Stewart the other night. I haven't watched TV for a long time
and he had Chris Wallace on from Fox News, I think, and they were talking about
what's happening out here and they were talking about well Cindy's gone, her
mom had a stroke, and then they said that Joan Baez gave a concert last night
and Jon Stewart said, "Well apparently they are trying to stop Vietnam." You
know and that kind of offended me because maybe if we had really stopped
Vietnam, Iraq wouldn't have happened (applause). You know we, I think it was
such a long struggle that after Vietnam, I'm not going to take any credit or
blame for this because I was really young, it was just like well we got our
troops out now we don't have to make sure they never do this to our kids again.
And I am going to make sure that after our troops are brought home from Iraq,
and they will be brought back, that we're going to keep the Camp Casey movement
going and we're gonna make sure that our kids are never sent to fight a war for
power and greed. (applause)
I'm thinking, I'm thinking probably, probably the country is kind of going to
take me at my word from now on. They are going to know that I'm not going to
give up and today was really hard when I came in and saw Casey bigger than life
over there. I miss him so much and I miss him more every day, but like that
song "Joe Hill," Casey's not dead. I see him in all of your eyes and Casey will
never die. And they can kill the body, but they can't kill the love and the
spirit, and no matter how hard they try they can't do that.
I want to tell you a little bit about Casey because this whole movement is
because of him and because of the others that have sacrificed themselves. The
hardest thing for me to hear, I don't care about them talking about me being a
crackpot or a media *****, or a tool of the left, you know. I'm like if I truly
was a media ***** do you think I would like maybe get myself fixed up a little
bit before I went on? That doesn't bother me at all, but what bothers me so
much is when they say I am dishonoring my son's memory by what I'm doing, that
my son would be ashamed of me or what they really like to say is that I'm
pissing, or shitting, or spitting on his grave. And look what Casey, look what
Casey has started. You know, I'm here because of Casey, we're all here because
of Casey and you know literally there is, there is over 2000 of our brave young
people and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis and I know they are behind us,
and I see them, all their faces on your faces.
But Casey was such a gentle kind loving person. He never even got in one fist
fight his whole life. Nobody even hated him enough to punch him let alone kill
him, and that's what George Bush did. He put our kids in another person's
country and Casey was killed by insurgents. He wasn't killed by terrorists. He
was killed by Shiite militia who wanted him out of the country, when Casey was
told he was going to be welcomed with chocolate and flowers as a liberator.
Well, the people of Iraq saw it differently. They saw him as an occupier.
Casey, I want you guys to know about him. You guys know he was an altar boy for
10 years. You guys know he was an eagle scout. You guys know he was an honor
student. You guys know he was a very brave person who was scared out of his
mind on April 4th, but he went anyway because he said, "Where my chief goes, I
go." But you don't know the little boy. He used to come up behind me. He used
to wrap his arms around my legs. He'd kiss me on the butt and he'd say, "I wuv
you mama." And if he wasn't doing that, he'd walk by and he'd go "dinus ha
mama" and that meant, "What are you doing mama?" Every night we'd put him to
bed. Every night he would say, "Thank you Mom. This was the best day of my
life."
There are a couple of funny stories. Once when he wasn't even 2 it was Easter
Sunday and we were all at mass and we were all jammed into one pew, you know
there was a bunch of us and the church was full, and we were standing up and we
sang the "Lamb of God." We were Catholic and we went to kneel down, and as soon
as we knelt down Casey stood up on one of the kneelers and at the top of his
voice he goes, "I'm Popeye the sailor man," and everybody in the whole church
was cracking up, and so from then on people at our church called him "Popeye."
They'd go, "Hey there goes Popeye."
And another cute story was when he was in kindergarten he went to the Catholic
school where we went to church and he went to afternoon so we couldn't pull in
the parking lot, so we'd have to drive around looking for a place to park. So
we were driving around one time and he goes, "Oh mama there's a place," and I
said "Oh honey we can't park there it's handicapped," and he goes "Oh, we're
not handicapped we're Catholic."
And then, he thought there were only two religions in the world and you guys
might know for those of you who grew up Catholic, it's Catholic and public.
They thought that those were the two religions. When Casey--in his rebellious
years--when we told him something he didn't agree with or whatever, this was
the extent of his talking back to us, "thssst." You know seriously this kid was
just, just an amazing person and we were so shocked when he joined the Army.
I mean, that would have been the last thing we would have expected from Casey,
but also the first thing because he always wanted to help. He always wanted to
serve. He thought he was giving something back to his country and community,
also having been lied to by his recruiter. So, then for my boy to be killed in
a war -- I don't know if you moms did the same thing, but when I would nurse
him I would promise him I would never let him go to war, you know, and I broke
that promise to him.
So this is the boy who they say I'm dishonoring by what I do and I know when I
get up with Casey, like he went there first before me. When I get up, he's
gonna say, "Good job Mom." (applause) He's not going to say, he's not going to
say, "Why'd you make me spin in my grave," you know. And I can just hear him
saying "George Bush you are really an idiot. You didn't know what you were
doing when you killed me. You didn't know what you were getting into." And I'm
sure Casey's up there with Ken and all the others and they're just going, "Wow,
did these guys have moms? They didn't know that this was going to happen when
they killed us?"
You know, so Casey, he wanted to get married, everybody thought he would be a
priest, but he told me "Mom I want to have a family. I want to get married,"
and he wanted to be a deacon in the Catholic Church which you can be and be a
married person too, and he was told he could be a chaplain's assistant in the
army and when he got there they said, you know, "Well, psych is full; you have
to be a cook or a humvee mechanic," so he became a humvee mechanic.
He wanted to be an elementary school teacher. He loves kids. He loved animals.
He was a very good big brother to Andy, Karly and Janey. And his murder has
left a hole in our hearts and in our family, and it's never going to be
replaced. No matter how many wonderful people I meet, how many boys that call
me "mom," they're not Casey.
He used to call me every day from Ft. Hood. I miss that. And Karen knows like
probably for almost a year after he was killed every time the phone rang I'd
think, "Oh that's Casey." And so it just like hits you about 50 times a day
that you're never going to talk to them, or see them again. And that's why I do
what I do, because I can't bear the thought of another mother having to go
through the pain that I'm going through. And that's the only reason I do it. So
that's what we're here for. We're here because we want to make it so our kids,
their deaths stand for peace and love, and this is what is at Camp Casey. And
you know some people are saying, "Oh what are guys trying to do, recreate the
sixties?" Oh yeah, peace and love is a really bad thing. You know it's been
something that's been missing in our country for decades and I'm not ashamed,
you know, I'm not ashamed to say that this is a place where you can come and
feel loved. You know this is the place where the end of the occupation of Iraq
started. This is the place where America comes to say, "We've had enough -
enough. You might be able to lie to Congress. You might be able to lie to the
media, but you're not lying to us anymore." And this is it, this is where it's
going to begin and we're not going stop today, we're not going to stop on the
31st. We're not going stop ever, ever. We will make sure that this keeps on
going. We won't have a war, another war, in 30 or 40 years, where we'll be
saying, "Oh this is another Iraq." You know, no, it's not going to ever happen
again. It's not going to just be me. It's going to be me with the millions of
people who are behind us, making sure that that will happen. And you know when
this is going to stop? This is going to stop when the mothers say, "No, I'm not
giving my son, I'm not giving my son to you so you can kill him to line your
pockets," and that's when it's going to stop.
I felt this a lot of times before when Casey was born. I looked in his eyes and
it looked like he could tell what I was thinking. That's very disarming when
you have like a week old baby looking at you and you know he knows what you're
thinking. And I knew he was going to be a great man. I just had no idea how
great he was going to be or how much it was going to hurt me. So, thank you
Casey and thank you Ken and thank you all the others, and I know that they are
in heaven and I know that that's why this movement is growing because we have
tens of thousands of angels behind us that are supporting us, that are saying,
"Well you know we died and that was really crappy, but we hope that our deaths
are going to make the world a better place," and it's up to us to make sure
that it does. Thank you.
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| User: "God Bless my Land Yacht" |
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| Title: Re: Cindy Sheehan's Wednesday Night Speech (Lying *****) |
01 Oct 2005 08:17:01 PM |
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"GodBlessAmerica" <goblow@aol.com> wrote in message
news:orsPe.145$wb5.106@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
Left wing idiots. So OK we leave Iraq tomorrow. Then what? A Civil War
with radical mullahs from Iran seizing control of the Iraq oil fields.
As opposed to Bush handing it to them on a silver platter? The end
result is the same. It might take longer if there were a civil war.
The Sunnis could do a better job of fighting them off than we have.
Next, they move down into
Saudi Arabia and the world is plunged into the dark ages.
If they had their own oil, what would be the motivation? Besides, even
if this happened, it would be courtesy of the 10 gallons to the mile SUV
that every Republican is in love with.
You left wing Democrats are just fucking stupid no more no less. Now we
know what all those billions
of Government school tax have done. We have created a generation of
retards in America with the Democrats leading the way.
Between the Democrats, Niggers all over TV saying the F word and
speaking ignorant English plus the mainstreaming of pervert fag butt
fuckers, China must be licking it's chops
in anticipation of knocking us off our superpower thrones
This country is fucked if the Democrats take over again we are just
fucked.
Quite ironic a hillbilly like you becoming critical of other people's
intellect. I'm sure your mother must be very proud.
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| User: "GW Chimpzilla" |
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| Title: Re: Cindy Sheehan's Wednesday Night Speech (Lying *****) |
25 Aug 2005 07:11:08 PM |
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GodBlessAmerica wrote:
Left wing idiots. So OK we leave Iraq tomorrow. Then what? A Civil War
with radical mullahs from Iran seizing control of the Iraq oil fields.
Iran and Iraq have different languages. The Shi'ites will end up running
SOuthern Iraq, and they will get aid from Iran, but they won't be absorbed by
Iran. Kurdistan is already alive with or without AWOL Bush. The only thing
remaining is the status of the Sunnis. What exactly is AWOL Bush doing to fix
THAT? Nothing.
Next, they move down into
Saudi Arabia and the world is plunged into the dark ages.
Oh, the old Vietnam domino effect. There is nothing but crude imagination to
think Saudi Arabia will fall to a SHi'ite Iraq/Iran axis. Saudi's have their
own deep problems. Don';t you think it is far more likely they will have an
internal revolt?
You left wing
Democrats are just fucking stupid no more no less.
Yes, we see.
Now we know what all
those billions
of Government school tax have done. We have created a generation of
retards in America with the Democrats leading the way.
Of course. School system. Yes.
Between the Democrats, Niggers
Do you have a daughter? I bet she'd like to suck on a black man's *****!
all over TV saying the F word and
speaking ignorant English plus the mainstreaming of pervert fag butt
fuckers, China must be licking it's chops
in anticipation of knocking us off our superpower thrones
This country is fucked if the Democrats take over again we are just fucked.
GW Chimpzilla wrote:
Cindy Sheehan: "Hi. Isn't she amazing? (applause) Do you guys mind if I
sit down too? This has been a pretty amazing day. Oops, did I do that. Oh,
okay. I was watching Jon Stewart the other night. I haven't watched TV for a
long time and he had Chris Wallace on from Fox News, I think, and they were
talking about what's happening out here and they were talking about well
Cindy's gone, her mom had a stroke, and then they said that Joan Baez gave a
concert last night and Jon Stewart said, "Well apparently they are trying to
stop Vietnam." You know and that kind of offended me because maybe if we had
really stopped Vietnam, Iraq wouldn't have happened (applause). You know we, I
think it was such a long struggle that after Vietnam, I'm not going to take
any credit or blame for this because I was really young, it was just like well
we got our troops out now we don't have to make sure they never do this to our
kids again. And I am going to make sure that after our troops are brought home
from Iraq, and they will be brought back, that we're going to keep the Camp
Casey movement going and we're gonna make sure that our kids are never sent to
fight a war for power and greed. (applause)
I'm thinking, I'm thinking probably, probably the country is kind of going to
take me at my word from now on. They are going to know that I'm not going to
give up and today was really hard when I came in and saw Casey bigger than
life over there. I miss him so much and I miss him more every day, but like
that song "Joe Hill," Casey's not dead. I see him in all of your eyes and
Casey will never die. And they can kill the body, but they can't kill the love
and the spirit, and no matter how hard they try they can't do that.
I want to tell you a little bit about Casey because this whole movement is
because of him and because of the others that have sacrificed themselves. The
hardest thing for me to hear, I don't care about them talking about me being a
crackpot or a media *****, or a tool of the left, you know. I'm like if I
truly was a media ***** do you think I would like maybe get myself fixed up a
little bit before I went on? That doesn't bother me at all, but what bothers
me so much is when they say I am dishonoring my son's memory by what I'm
doing, that my son would be ashamed of me or what they really like to say is
that I'm pissing, or shitting, or spitting on his grave. And look what Casey,
look what Casey has started. You know, I'm here because of Casey, we're all
here because of Casey and you know literally there is, there is over 2000 of
our brave young people and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis and I know
they are behind us, and I see them, all their faces on your faces.
But Casey was such a gentle kind loving person. He never even got in one fist
fight his whole life. Nobody even hated him enough to punch him let alone kill
him, and that's what George Bush did. He put our kids in another person's
country and Casey was killed by insurgents. He wasn't killed by terrorists. He
was killed by Shiite militia who wanted him out of the country, when Casey was
told he was going to be welcomed with chocolate and flowers as a liberator.
Well, the people of Iraq saw it differently. They saw him as an occupier.
Casey, I want you guys to know about him. You guys know he was an altar boy
for 10 years. You guys know he was an eagle scout. You guys know he was an
honor student. You guys know he was a very brave person who was scared out of
his mind on April 4th, but he went anyway because he said, "Where my chief
goes, I go." But you don't know the little boy. He used to come up behind me.
He used to wrap his arms around my legs. He'd kiss me on the butt and he'd
say, "I wuv you mama." And if he wasn't doing that, he'd walk by and he'd go
"dinus ha mama" and that meant, "What are you doing mama?" Every night we'd
put him to bed. Every night he would say, "Thank you Mom. This was the best
day of my life."
There are a couple of funny stories. Once when he wasn't even 2 it was Easter
Sunday and we were all at mass and we were all jammed into one pew, you know
there was a bunch of us and the church was full, and we were standing up and
we sang the "Lamb of God." We were Catholic and we went to kneel down, and as
soon as we knelt down Casey stood up on one of the kneelers and at the top of
his voice he goes, "I'm Popeye the sailor man," and everybody in the whole
church was cracking up, and so from then on people at our church called him
"Popeye." They'd go, "Hey there goes Popeye."
And another cute story was when he was in kindergarten he went to the Catholic
school where we went to church and he went to afternoon so we couldn't pull in
the parking lot, so we'd have to drive around looking for a place to park. So
we were driving around one time and he goes, "Oh mama there's a place," and I
said "Oh honey we can't park there it's handicapped," and he goes "Oh, we're
not handicapped we're Catholic."
And then, he thought there were only two religions in the world and you guys
might know for those of you who grew up Catholic, it's Catholic and public.
They thought that those were the two religions. When Casey--in his rebellious
years--when we told him something he didn't agree with or whatever, this was
the extent of his talking back to us, "thssst." You know seriously this kid
was just, just an amazing person and we were so shocked when he joined the
Army. I mean, that would have been the last thing we would have expected from
Casey, but also the first thing because he always wanted to help. He always
wanted to serve. He thought he was giving something back to his country and
community, also having been lied to by his recruiter. So, then for my boy to
be killed in a war -- I don't know if you moms did the same thing, but when I
would nurse him I would promise him I would never let him go to war, you know,
and I broke that promise to him.
So this is the boy who they say I'm dishonoring by what I do and I know when I
get up with Casey, like he went there first before me. When I get up, he's
gonna say, "Good job Mom." (applause) He's not going to say, he's not going to
say, "Why'd you make me spin in my grave," you know. And I can just hear him
saying "George Bush you are really an idiot. You didn't know what you were
doing when you killed me. You didn't know what you were getting into." And I'm
sure Casey's up there with Ken and all the others and they're just going,
"Wow, did these guys have moms? They didn't know that this was going to happen
when they killed us?"
You know, so Casey, he wanted to get married, everybody thought he would be a
priest, but he told me "Mom I want to have a family. I want to get married,"
and he wanted to be a deacon in the Catholic Church which you can be and be a
married person too, and he was told he could be a chaplain's assistant in the
army and when he got there they said, you know, "Well, psych is full; you have
to be a cook or a humvee mechanic," so he became a humvee mechanic.
He wanted to be an elementary school teacher. He loves kids. He loved animals.
He was a very good big brother to Andy, Karly and Janey. And his murder has
left a hole in our hearts and in our family, and it's never going to be
replaced. No matter how many wonderful people I meet, how many boys that call
me "mom," they're not Casey.
He used to call me every day from Ft. Hood. I miss that. And Karen knows like
probably for almost a year after he was killed every time the phone rang I'd
think, "Oh that's Casey." And so it just like hits you about 50 times a day
that you're never going to talk to them, or see them again. And that's why I
do what I do, because I can't bear the thought of another mother having to go
through the pain that I'm going through. And that's the only reason I do it.
So that's what we're here for. We're here because we want to make it so our
kids, their deaths stand for peace and love, and this is what is at Camp
Casey. And you know some people are saying, "Oh what are guys trying to do,
recreate the sixties?" Oh yeah, peace and love is a really bad thing. You know
it's been something that's been missing in our country for decades and I'm not
ashamed, you know, I'm not ashamed to say that this is a place where you can
come and feel loved. You know this is the place where the end of the
occupation of Iraq started. This is the place where America comes to say,
"We've had enough - enough. You might be able to lie to Congress. You might be
able to lie to the media, but you're not lying to us anymore." And this is it,
this is where it's going to begin and we're not going stop today, we're not
going to stop on the 31st. We're not going stop ever, ever. We will make sure
that this keeps on going. We won't have a war, another war, in 30 or 40 years,
where we'll be saying, "Oh this is another Iraq." You know, no, it's not going
to ever happen again. It's not going to just be me. It's going to be me with
the millions of people who are behind us, making sure that that will happen.
And you know when this is going to stop? This is going to stop when the
mothers say, "No, I'm not giving my son, I'm not giving my son to you so you
can kill him to line your pockets," and that's when it's going to stop.
I felt this a lot of times before when Casey was born. I looked in his eyes
and it looked like he could tell what I was thinking. That's very disarming
when you have like a week old baby looking at you and you know he knows what
you're thinking. And I knew he was going to be a great man. I just had no idea
how great he was going to be or how much it was going to hurt me. So, thank
you Casey and thank you Ken and thank you all the others, and I know that they
are in heaven and I know that that's why this movement is growing because we
have tens of thousands of angels behind us that are supporting us, that are
saying, "Well you know we died and that was really crappy, but we hope that
our deaths are going to make the world a better place," and it's up to us to
make sure that it does. Thank you.
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