Media Chatter Ignored Soldiers for Cindy

Millions of words were written and spoken by the major media about Cindy Sheehan’s camp outside Bush’s ranch in Texas. As usual, they were blind to the most important news event of all from Crawford, Texas.

Fraternization.

The word that terrifies Imperial politicians.

Soldiers from Ft. Hood began to come to the action.

They came to talk, to listen; some came to help out and bring supplies.

The soldiers reached out to the movement against the war in Iraq. And so did some sailors too.

When the history of the movement that stopped this war is written, the few small sentences below will weigh more than all the words babbled by all the politicians in Washington.

Soldiers can stop a war, when they decide enough is enough, and that the whole thing is dishonorable, deadly bullshit.

They did it in Vietnam, when they rebelled against that war.

They can do it again.

The soldiers who reached out to the movement against the war took a risk.

Now it’s time for civilians against the war to reach out to them.

Check out what happened:

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2005-08-09 Report from Cindy Day 3 Via David Swanson News from Crawford
By Cindy Sheehan [Excerpt]

We had a young man who is in the US Army at Ft. Hood come this morning and spend hours with us. He has been there and his unit is scheduled to go back in October. How much courage did that take for him to come within earshot of his commander in chief’s home and spend time with some old hippy protestors???

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Aug 12th, 2005 Cindy Sheehan, Daily Kos [Excerpt]

Three active duty soldiers from Ft. Hood came to visit me and tell me that they really appreciated what I was doing and that if they were killed in the war, their moms would be doing the same thing. That made me feel so good after all of the negativity I had been hearing from the righties.

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Aug 16th, 2005 by Cindy Sheehan [Excerpt]

We are moving to a place that doesn’t have much shade and I put out an appeal for tarps and a soldier from Ft. Hood brought some to us. I have had a lot of soldiers from Ft. Hood come out and tell me to keep it up and that I am doing a good thing.

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Aug 28th, 2005 by Cindy Sheehan, Daily Kos [Excerpts]

A photographer friend of mine went down to Crawford to the Pro-War, Anti-Peace rally today. There were about 1500 people there he said. I was visited by a 2nd Lt. from Casey’s 2-5 Cavalry that told me to keep up the good work and Casey’s old roommate came out from Ft. Hood to meet me.

He may have to go back to Iraq soon. He hopes he doesn’t have to since he will be out in 6 months, but he is pretty sure he will be stop-lossed.

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August 18, 2005, Sailors For Cindy
By STEVE STONE, The Virginian-Pilot

VIRGINIA BEACH — There were no angry speeches. No shouting. Just the soft flicker of hand held candles illuminating faces, young and old. Except for some anti-war sentiments scrawled on a few signs, it was hard to tell why about 200 people had gathered in vigil Wednesday night at Town Center. That is until the first soft voice in song cut through the din of conversation and laughter like a bullet.

The gathering was one of hundreds nationwide in support of Cindy Sheehan whose son, an Army soldier, was killed in Iraq in April 2004. While the crowd at Town Center was made up largely of civilians, there were numerous retired and even active-duty military members present.

Bryan Brooks, 23, a nuclear electrician aboard the carrier Enterprise , said he is disillusioned with the war because the basis for invading Iraq was its possession of weapons of mass destruction. But that proved to be “definitely, definitely wrong,” he said.

“You can oppose the war and still love your country,” Brooks said. And if called to fight, he said he’ll obey. “I will do as I am told,” Brooks pledged, “even if I don’t agree.”

“After 9/11, all I wanted was a way to Afghanistan and an axe,” said Bill Everett, a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve. Back then, he thought the war was just and said he believed Bush. No more, however.

“It’s all about the oil and money,” Everett, 29, said. “It’s not about protecting the American people, and that’s what I signed up for.” As he spoke, a few men passed by, one muttered a denunciation of the demonstration, saying it did not support the troops. Everett’s response was swift. “I am in the service,” he shot back, waving his military ID card.

He said its time to leave Iraq to the Iraqis. “Let them settle it among themselves and if they want a religious government, then let them have it,” Everett said. “Bush wants religion in government here.”

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