The last part of Will Pitt's article on Cindy

[proud2BlibKansan]

Anyone who called her an attention-whore is a fool, and is absolutely ignorant of what real sacrifice looks like and feels like and requires and costs. Anyone glad for her departure from activism is celebrating a disaster, is celebrating the loss of a face and heart and soul that brought this war into the living rooms of this TV-dulled nation in a way that no other effort or march or activism had before.

But anyone surprised that she's going home should have been with me in March, and seen her condition of body and spirit. Cindy has done enough. She has done more than anyone else to end this war. She has honored her son, changed the way this nation looks at this war, she has inspired, and that is enough. Those who rallied to her banner, who still consider her a hero - and yes, Cindy, there are many more of us than you can possible imagine - will take it from here as best they can.

And, by the way, there's also this:

"We're going to see what other direction we can come at it," said Cindy on Tuesday during Ed Schultz's radio show, "because obviously the direction that we're going has stopped being effective. We're going to close up the factory, we're going to retool, and we're going to see how we can come at this problem from a different angle."

So.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053007A.shtml

[Matariki]

1. yep. kick. recommend.

[liberal N proud]

2. Key...

"we're going to retool, and we're going to see how we can come at this problem from a different angle."

[PDJane]

3. Cindy is a special and beautiful soul.

Those who continue to denigrate her need to get out and do something for the country and for others. They might manage to change their understanding that way.

[Raven]

4. I cannot imagine being in her place.

1. The loss of a child.

2. The loss of a child in an illegal, immoral war.

3. Spending days in the rain, the cold, the heat, in ditches.

4. Being ridiculed by the warmongers.

5. Being ridiculed by my own.

Can't imagine how much it must hurt.

[LibraLiz1973]

5. That is why I agree with her stepping back

Because she really has been carrying this on her own- and it's time for other people to step the hell up.
All the work she has done is a major accomplishment~ yet what needs to be accomplished is so much bigger than one person... or even one person with a thousand fellow voices.
We ALL need to stand up like Cindy did.

Maybe by taking a step back other people will finally realize that they HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. That is such a good point!

[SteveM]

6. Ms. Sheehan got what 2A defenders get in the Gungeon, every day (nt)

[Straight Shooter]

7. Are you listening, bush? A wise person knows when to stop, when to change direction.

I like her analogy of retooling and coming at the problem from a different angle. :thumbsup:

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. I liked that idea too

[BlooInBloo]

10. I refuse to visit truthout, but I nevertheless agree on the Sheehan stuff.