{"id":2286,"date":"2005-08-11T19:43:14","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T02:43:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-08-11T19:43:14","modified_gmt":"2005-08-12T02:43:14","slug":"who-is-at-crawford-tx-with-cindy-sheehan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/11\/who-is-at-crawford-tx-with-cindy-sheehan\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is at Crawford, TX with Cindy Sheehan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

 From  Military Families Speak Out <\/a><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

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Celeste, Dante and Raphael Zappala of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.<\/b> Celeste and her son Dante arrived in Crawford on Tuesday August 9; son Raphael will arrive Friday night August 12. Celeste’s son Sgt. Sherwood Baker (Dante and Raphael’s brother) was the first Pennsylvania National Guardsman to die in combat since World War II. He was killed in action in Baghdad on April 26, 2004 while searching for non-existent WMD’s. Celeste is a co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Tammara Rosenleaf of Belton, Texas <\/b>arrived in Crawford on Tuesday, August 9th<\/sup>. Tammara’s husband serves in the Army, stationed at Ft. Hood, and will be deploying to Iraq this fall.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Lietta Ruger of Bay Center, Washington<\/b> will be arriving in Crawford Wednesday morning, August 10th. Lietta’s son-in-law and nephew serve in the 1st Armored Division of the U.S. Army and are currently in Germany. They have both served extended 15-month tours of duty in Iraq; they are both under stop-loss orders and due to re-deploy to Iraq this fall.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Linda and Phil Waste of Hinesville, Georgia<\/b> will arrive in Crawford Wednesday morning August 10th. Linda and Phil have 3 sons and 2 grandchildren (a grandson and a granddaughter) who are active-duty military. Together, they have already spent a total of over 57 months on tours of duty in Iraq. Several of these children\/grandchildren are currently serving in Iraq, and have served extended and multiple deployments.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Jean Prewitt<\/b> of Birmingham, Alabama<\/b> will arrive in Crawford on Wednesday morning, August 10th<\/sup>. Jean’s son Private Kelly Prewitt was killed in action during the first few weeks of the war in Iraq, on April 6, 2003.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Valarie Fletcher of Seymour, Missouri <\/b>is driving to Crawford and arriving Wednesday evening, August 10. Valarie’s son serves in the Marines and will be deploying to Iraq at the end of this month. <\/font><\/p>\n

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Sherry Bohlen<\/b> of Scottsdale, Arizona <\/b>is driving to Crawford and arriving on Wednesday evening, August 10. Sherry’s son serves in the Army and deployed to Iraq on June 10, 2005.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Rebecca Bahr<\/b> of Scottsdale, Arizona <\/b>is driving to Crawford and arriving on Wednesday evening August 10.  Rebecca’s daughter serves in the Marines and is currently stateside.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Caryn Unsicker of Silvis, Illinois <\/b>is driving to Crawford and arriving Wednesday evening, August 10. Caryn’s son serves in the Marines, currently stateside.<\/font><\/p>\n

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 Anne Sapp and her daughters Lydia (age 17) and Mary (age 8) of Billerica, Massachusetts<\/b> will be arriving in Crawford on Thursday morning, August 11th. Anne’s husband\/Lydia and Mary’s father is a Staff Sergeant in the Massachusetts National Guard and currently serving in Iraq.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Barbara Porchia of Camden, Arkansas<\/b> will be arriving in Crawford on Thursday morning August 11th. Barbara’s son, Army Reservist Private 1st Class Jonathan Cheatham, was killed in action in Baghdad two years ago, on July 26, 2003.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Sue Niederer of Pennington, New Jersey<\/b> will be arriving in Crawford on Thursday morning August 11th. Sue’s son, 1st Lieutenant Seth Dvorin, was killed in action near Iskandariyah, Iraq on February 3, 2004. Sue is a co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace. <\/font><\/p>\n

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Kristin Williams and Matthew Williams of Dallas, Texas<\/b> will be arriving in Crawford this weekend (August 13-14). Matthew Williams is an Iraq War Veteran who served as a combat medic for one year in Iraq (2003-2004). He was honorably discharged from the Army. Kristin is his sister.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Bill Mitchell of Atascadero, California<\/b> will be arriving in Crawford in the next several days. Bill’s son Sgt. Michael Mitchell was killed in action in Sadr City, Iraq on April 4, 2004, along with Cindy Sheehan’s son Spc. Casey Sheehan. Bill is a co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Mimi Evans of Hyannis, Massachusetts<\/b> will be arriving in Crawford on Tuesday, August 16th. Mimi’s son serves in the Marines; he will be deployed to Fallujah, Iraq in the next two weeks. <\/font><\/p>\n

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 Eric Blickenstaff of Portland, Oregon<\/b> will be arriving in Crawford early next week. Eric’s brother Spc. Joseph Blickenstaff served in the Army and was killed when his Stryker vehicle rolled into a ditch on December 8, 2003 in Balad, Iraq. <\/font><\/p>\n

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Looks like the Republican\/RightWingnut<\/a> Noise <\/a>Machine<\/a> is going to have to smear <\/a>alot more people than just Cindy Sheehan. <\/a>   <\/font><\/p>\n

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UPDATE: Jonathan Schwarz <\/a>has more on Bill Mitchell, who is with Cindy at Camp Casey.<\/p>\n

Mitchell: “I’m here in Crawford, Texas today to support my friend, Cindy Sheehan. I appreciate what she’s doing. I was against the war beforehand. I wish I could sit here and tell you how much you should appreciate my son for your liberty and freedom, but, you know, I didn’t believe that before the war, and when my son died I surely couldn’t grab that and cherish that feeling, because I know it’s lies that got us there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 From  Military Families Speak Out Celeste, Dante and Raphael Zappala of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Celeste and her son Dante arrived in Crawford on Tuesday August 9; son Raphael will arrive Friday night August 12. Celeste’s son Sgt. Sherwood Baker (Dante and Raphael’s brother) was the first Pennsylvania National Guardsman to die in combat since World War II. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}