Reply #320: Thank you, Cindy, for taking your grief and using it to save this country.

[EFerrari]

Thank you for speaking up when most people didn't or wouldn't because they were afraid or numb.

Thank you for enduring the criticism of people who couldn't be bothered to do the bloody math. .The terrible, terrible math.

Thank you for using your mother's heart to teach us integrity and consistency and thank you for not giving up on us. My children won't go to Iraq but I don't want to live in a world where ANYONE'S children are sacrificed to Halliburton. Where their service is window dressing for war profiteers.

You know that night they arrested you for wearing a t-shirt with the numbers of our "casualties" (as if any loss is "casual")? I got really mad at myself because I wasn't with you and because I couldn't raise hell with these bullies that think they can shut us up.

They can't. You've lit a fire that won't be put out.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Beth