CODEPINK Women for Peace

May 11, 2006

Dear CODEPINK Activist,

This Sunday will be the third Mother's Day that I have spent without my oldest child
in my life. Casey was killed in Iraq exactly five weeks before Mother's Day in 2004.


Everyday is an incredible experience of pain and longing: for Casey and for his
future and for his here and now. Special days like holidays and birthdays always
seem to be harder. Casey will never call me again to wish me Happy Mother's Day. I
will never get another funny card from him. I will never have a daughter-in-law or
grandchild from Casey.

George and Laura Bush will probably celebrate Mother's Day with their daughters,
secure and happy in the fact that they are together. Jenna and Barbara will never be
put in harm's way for the avaricious and destructive policies of their father,
policies that have sent too many of us world's mothers into a tailspin of grief and
emptiness.

This Mother's Day, I will be joining CODEPINK and mothers from all over the country
in holding a 24-hour vigil in front of the White House beginning Saturday, May 13th
at 3 pm. We will be demanding an end to the occupation of Iraq before too many more
Cindy and Casey Sheehan?s are produced. We mothers and children of the world will
also demand that our government not invade Iran and kill any chance for a peaceful
world that we may still have. We will be joined there by Susan Sarandon and many
other mothers of peace and courage who are working for the same thing.

George Bush has never met with me to answer what noble cause Casey and over 2400
brave young Americans and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians have
died for.

Fighting a War on Terror with a War of Terror to enrich the war machine is not a
noble cause. Peace is.

Please join us to make our noble cause dream a reality. Come to Washington DC if you
can (click here for more info:
http://www.codepinkalert.org//article.php?list=type&type=123) or participate in a
local Mother's Day activity (http://www.codepinkalert.org//article.php?id=939).
Support our efforts by sending a rose
(http://www.workingforchange.com/Order/index.cfm?OrderFormID=8 ) or making a
donation
(https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/codepink/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=1434).
And work with us in the months ahead as we build a movement of mothers and others
powerful enough to stop this war -- and the next one.

Peace,
Cindy Sheehan