I just ran across MORE on the lies of Cindy Shenanigans. Yes. I know. We are all sick to death of her and her ….. her …. her CONSTANT attempts to get attention.
The Chicken Hawk Express has an article here and here. He examines the various tales she’s told about why her son doesn’t have a headstone.
I’ve read quotes in which she told that she just couldn’t bear the thought of a TOMBstone for her son. She couldn’t even think of him in a cemetary so she thinks of it as ‘Casey’s Garden’.
I’ve read quotes in which she blames a fellow Church member who was going to help her pay for the funeral expenses but apparently didn’t get around to it.
I’ve read quotes in which she blames the mortuary for not paying the cemetery.
I’ve read quotes in which she says the Army treated her badly and didn’t pay the expenses and told her it was her problem.
To hear her various reasons for not getting a headstone for her son’s grave one would think the entire world has conspired against her to prevent her from memorializing her son with a headstone.
ChickenHawk also points us to the Gateway Pundit who has researched some of Shenanigan’s lies.
Once when asked why her son didn’t have a headstone, this was her reply:
I will tell the world why Casey has no marker yet. In the first place, does anyone who is attacking me know how Casey was brought home from Iraq? We picked him up in the United loading dock in a cardboard box and he was off-loaded into a hearse without one honor guard. We had to wait for about a half hour on a curb near the United freight area for his one escort, who rode from Dover Air Force Base in a seat, while Casey was treated as an over-sized piece of luggage. Has anybody held her other sobbing children who are sitting on a curb in San Francisco, waiting for the remains of their big brother to be carried over to the dock by a forklift?
WE don’t see them because Mama Bush doesn’t want to “bother her pretty mind” with the images… Our government discards and dishonors its own.
Huh?
The Gateway Pundit contacted the funeral home whose owners were none too happy with Mama Sheehan’s allegations against them. Here’s some of what they had to say:
When questioned about the casket:
“The casket arrived in San Francisco from Dover which is 67 miles from Vacaville. Sacramento would not have been as far. The casket was a beautiful hardwood casket, government regulation. It was covered in an “airtray” to protect it during the flight. It is a certified covering that all caskets must be covered in when they are flown from one location to another.
What about the forklift?
“There was no forklift. The military men present and the airport employees were very reverent in unloading the casket of this young man. They set the casket on a set of rollers and were very respectful in unloading Casey Sheehan.”
On the Sheehan Family:
This was very upsetting because we have known the Sheehan’s for years through St. Mary’s Catholic Church where Cindy Sheehan was the youth director. Casey Sheehan was a wonderful young man. We have known the family for years.
On Cindy’s article:
We do not know why she would want to bring down the name of this fine and respected funeral home. Cindy is sticking with her story. We have, of course, kept all of the receipts that show we paid the cemetery. If Cindy Sheehan wanted to pick on someone, she picked the wrong ones.
There’s more - go on over and read it.
I find this woman to be down right pitiful. She’s obviously not the brightest bulb in the pack.
She also enrages me. The very fact that she would use the death of her son to get this kind of attention, praise, pity, and financial gain is just beyond the pale.
Here is a much more noteworthy tribute to fallen heros.
Or this
or this
Blackfive has a must-read tribute
Previous shenanigans posts:
Cindy Sheehan refuses to talk to War Widow
Cindy Shenanigans and the Missing Tombstone
Barbara Didn’t Raise George Right
From One Soldier’s Mother to Another
Beth at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy seems to be having trouble putting words to her feelings about PMS - NOT….. HA!
Zombie Time has some photos of one of Cindy’s latest performances.
California Conservative, Little Green Footballs; Op-For, The Thunder Run, Airborne Combat Engineer, PA Pundits, GZ Expat, DPGI, all have more on PMS (Peace Mama Sheehan)
Open trackbacks: Freedom Watch; Echo9er; TMH’s Bacon Bits; Rhymes with Right
