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George, it has been seven months today since your reckless and wanton foreign policies killed my son, my big boy, my hero, my best-friend: Casey.

— Cindy Sheehan

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How many more of our loved ones need to die in this senseless war?

They can't ignore us, and they can't put us down. Thank God for the Internet, or we wouldn't know anything, and we would already be a fascist state.

The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war.

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not afraid of anything.

I still get my fair share of hate messages. But the messages from people who outright apologize to me for “hating” me and who tell me they have since changed their minds outnumber those.

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