The president is still ignoring Cindy Sheehan, right-wing hacks are keeping up their character assassination against this mother of a dead American solider, and one of the president’s neighbors is shooting off his gun in protest of Sheehan. But Sheehan is keeping up her vigil and is determined to have the president hear her message.
Religious leaders joined in yesterday in Crawford to offer support for mothers who have lost children in Iraq:
(National Council of Churches) General Secretary Bob Edgar and other religious leaders paid a pastoral visit August 12 on a grieving United Methodist Gold Star mother who is standing vigil outside President Bush's Crawford, Tex., ranch. Celeste Zappala, whose son, Sherwood, was killed in Iraq, has joined Cindy Sheehan and other Gold Star mothers in an effort to meet with Mr. Bush during his month-long vacation. Edgar said the purpose of their visit to the mothers "is not political or partisan. Anyone who would suggest that vastly underestimates the pain these sisters feel." He said he expected the President to meet with the women "because he is a good man who knows it is the right and compassionate thing to do." Edgar led a worship service for Gold Star families outside the Bush compound and both onlookers and media joined in. "It was a very appropriate service," said retired (United Methodist Church) Bishop Joe Wilson, who read Scripture. "It was like a love feast."
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