> Cindy Sheehan at the Veterans for Peace National Convention
23 September 2005, 07:36
Cindy and all Americans - and all people of the world.
Last night I drove to New York city to listen to a panel "starring" Howard Zinn, introducing his new book "Voices.." Your speech of Aug.5 to the Veterans for Peace was read and received with great applause. Howard Zinn would have included you and your words in his book, had it not already been published. I do not come from a leftist liberal family. My family fled the Baltics and the ones that remained behind suffered under the Stalinist regime. Yet when Howard Zinn was my professor at Boston University, he made me see war and the needless and hurtful deaths it brings, and he made me see the "interests" of the American government. Yet through the years I have always admired his optimism, and when asked about this, he said that it takes sometimes one person, a small gathering to ask the questions, to tell another side, and this is how change can take place. You are part of his answer, and also part of mine, and hopefully many more will start to "’question authority." The 60s and 70s came and went and many of the generation supposedly entered the mainstream, but I will always question, and I applaud you.
Mr. Bush, let’s bring our sons and daughters home. Balva
Cindy and all Americans - and all people of the world.
Last night I drove to New York city to listen to a panel "starring" Howard Zinn, introducing his new book "Voices.." Your speech of Aug.5 to the Veterans for Peace was read and received with great applause. Howard Zinn would have included you and your words in his book, had it not already been published. I do not come from a leftist liberal family. My family fled the Baltics and the ones that remained behind suffered under the Stalinist regime. Yet when Howard Zinn was my professor at Boston University, he made me see war and the needless and hurtful deaths it brings, and he made me see the "interests" of the American government. Yet through the years I have always admired his optimism, and when asked about this, he said that it takes sometimes one person, a small gathering to ask the questions, to tell another side, and this is how change can take place. You are part of his answer, and also part of mine, and hopefully many more will start to "’question authority." The 60s and 70s came and went and many of the generation supposedly entered the mainstream, but I will always question, and I applaud you.
Mr. Bush, let’s bring our sons and daughters home. Balva