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

—  Cindy Sheehan

Blog entry http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/cindy-sheehan/we-have-the-power_5577.html, August 13, 2005
2005

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