Cindy Sheehan
 Cindy Sheehan (AP Photo/Jerry Larson) |
Cindy Sheehan’s son Casey, the eldest of her four children, was killed in action outside of Baghdad, Iraq in April 2004. After weeks of grief, Sheehan says, she had an epiphany: “I will spend my life trying to make Casey’s sacrifice count for peace and love, not killing and hate.” Sheehan founded Gold Star Families for Peace with other families who had lost loved ones in Iraq, and, in the summer of 2005, attracted international media attention by camping outside President Bush’s Crawford, Texas ranch for a month. Sheehan’s antiwar activism continues to this day. She has been arrested several times, has run for Congress and the vice presidency, and authored a book about her experiences, Peace Mom: A Mother’s Journey Through Heartache to Activism. Sheehan also refuses to pay taxes, saying that her son was killed in an “illegal and immoral war” funded by taxpayer money. |
