Your unique voice captured my attention, the very first time I heard it, and when you captured my attention last night I listened to you because I can relate to what you were saying. You're different. Ms. Sheehan too had the same unique voice and quality about her, and in her I saw my mother, a woman of conscience and courage. I felt a smear against her was a smear against all service-members mothers, including my own, and I spoke out publicly in her defense.

Now she is a celebrity of sorts, with an agenda that has grown with time. Her list of friends and supporters has grown from the concerned families who lit candles on the side of the road to what appears to be an industry, and this industry includes a man that has a serious beef with our administration. I still understand her big picture and as a citizen she has a right to speak out. But Ms Sheehan has traded in her once unique voice in return for a larger audience.

Sometimes smaller is bigger and "unique" always captures our imagination. Hanging with Chavez just stereotypes her. I thought her cause was bigger than that, and I'm disappointed. Ten years from now Chavez will be a memory if this admininstration has anything to do with it. I was hoping Cindy would've realized that. Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and Cesar Chavez were unique too. Their message played to everyone and their voices were stronger than any world leader's stage. They made their own stage with their message. She may be trading in the legacy of one Chavez for another, and by that, diminish her truth. Unique people would never do that.