From The Dissident Voice
By Cindy Sheehan

When we left Lafayette Park yesterday there were 3396 Americans dead in Iraq. When we got to the Capitol about 45 minutes later, the count was up to 3498 and when we got out of jail 8 hours later, 3401 were gone.

Three-hundred amazing Americans joined us yesterday in The Mother of a March which was sponsored by The Camp Casey Peace Institute and supported and co-sponsored by many other peace groups.

Cynthia came from Berkeley. Cindy came from Washington State. Another Cindy came from Illinois worried out of her mind because her Marine son is stationed around Mahmoudiya, or so she thinks. We are quite certain now that her son was not killed or captured in the ambush that took the lives of five soldiers and captured three the other day, but although relieved, we all mourn for the families that weren’t so fortunate. We also pray that our captured soldiers are treated more humanely than America treats our prisoners in such places as Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.

Paul came from Cape Cod and had emailed me earlier, very pleased that his wife gave him permission to get arrested with us if we decided to do civil disobedience.

Polly and Tina have quit their jobs, moved to DC, and have made ending the war their life work. It is not easy and they scrape by day to day, hand to mouth, but they care about our soldiers who are not only dying and killing innocent people, but are being physically, emotionally, and spiritually wounded by the tens of thousands. We all intensely care about the people of Iraq who think it it okay to kill Americans–almost by unanimous acclamation.

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