As you probably know, last week Congressman Conyers put out a call for 2000 LTE's in support of Cindy Sheehan. He even had a convenient site to write them and forward them to your local papers for you. So I sent him one and copied it here on his diary at the time, not thinking I'd ever see it again.
I was just about to go to bed when I happened to glance at today's letters in the Quad City Times, and there was mine...
Text is attached on the flip if anybody's interested.
As I sit here watching my son's classmates play in the first round of the Little League World Series, I should have a sense that "all is right with the world." Instead, my thoughts travel to Cindy Sheehan and the other Gold Star moms and dads who have joined her in Crawford. They camp out in the hot Texas sun and endure the taunts of others simply to ask the president, "What noble cause?"
I see the joy and innocence in those Little League players, and in my own child, and I can't help but think that not so long ago, their children were just as young and innocent. While we try to raise our sons and daughters to live lives of quiet dignity, decency, and honor, those parents already succeeded in that attempt. And too many of us are repaying that debt by questioning their motives in asking that simple question. Too many of us are still excusing this president for not having the courage to face them or even attempt an answer.
Nobody could possibly have adequate words to comfort those who have lost their loved ones. These parents have put themselves on the line in order that others among us might never know the same pain.
Dick "five deferment" Cheney said this week that we count on the bravest among us to answer the call of duty. They have and they do. And now their parents do too.
I stand with Cindy.
Thank you Congressman Conyers for spurring us all to whatever small action we might be able to undertake...and thank you Cindy for standing up for us all...