NEWS: Cindy Sheehan Crams Her Uterus Into Sweet Texas Dirt

As I didn't hear the entire interview, I don't yet know what her full reasoning was, but whatever the case, it ends up being a powerful statement and some of the best true art I've heard of in a long time. I really don't see what everyone is so disturbed by. Of course, it would have made more of a statement if she had buried it outside of Bush's front gate, but it's in the same zipcode and that works.
Almost everyone involved with this site does what could be called 'mutillation' to their own bodies; I don't see what's so sickening about taking something that was a part of you and, rather than having it thrown in the garbage, performing some act with it that has meaning for you and, perhaps, other people as well.

Probably because up there where it indicates the kind of story it is, this is marked COMMENTARY. It's not news.

Maybe someone already said this.. but now it really isn't uter "u"... it's uter "U.S."!

If you're going to tell someone else that they're wrong, you should at least be right.

Casey Sheehan was never a chaplian. It would be impossible for him to be one. He was a Specialist (an enlisted rank) and chaplains must be officers. To be an officer (medical related fields excluded) you have to have a BA. He had the hopes of becoming a chaplain's assistant. At the time of his death he worked on Jeeps and such. He was a vehicle mechanic.

Almost all soldiers are given incentive to re-up. Spc Sheehan wasn't lied to about a reenlistment bonus. He was told by his recruiter that the Army would give him $20,000 to enlist originally. Airmen will get $10,000 to switch from the AF to the Army. Recruiters lie. That's what they do. All five services' recruiting fields are being investigated and change to prevent that from happening in the future. Yes, the Army promised him money for school. It wasn't a false promise either. DoD offers 100% tuition assistance right now. They will pay for you to go to school (given you have the time and the ability). With the G.I. Bill, you can actually be paid to go to school. I'm hoping to start in some of the classes Sheehan was hoping to take.

What is this "for reasons even the army cannot explain, he was sent to Iraq?"

I can explain it now. Specialist Sheehan was a soldier. The Army sent his unit to Iraq, so he had to go with them. In the Army, unless you are a chaplian or medic, you are a Soldier first. If called upon, you are expectedl pick up a gun and fire, like the man next to you. Basically, you can be reverted back to a grunt at any time.

Sheehan Bio
Spc Sheehan Bio
Spc Sheehan's story: told by his mother (read para. 8)
(edited for links and more info)

If you are right, then you are right, I was just relaying the condensed story Cindy Sheehan had told on the radio, and now that you mention it, she did say chaplians assistant and not chaplain.

And I know you can be called into the infantry at any time. The point is at the time the president said things were going swimmingly in Iraq while in one particular case this man served for a very short period of time before being killed.
I was not meaning to say that this has never happened before, I am saying that his mother has a very natural reaction to go "Uhh, WTF?!"

only if you access via the news site, not the boards - thanks for the tip though.

PMSL

I once stubbed my big toe, it turned purple and black. When the whole nail fell off a little while later, I put it in a memory box and saved it for years and years.
My friends mom miscarried, she kept her unborn son in the freezer.

People do bizarre things. Eric Estrada keeps his son's umbillical cord in a little gold box he wears on a chain around his neck. Some people speak in toungues. Some people eat their placenta on pizza (yummy after-birth!). Some people stick their bodies with needles and inject ink under their skin. Some people have parts of their bodies removed. We live in a wierd world, who are we to judge... Oh wait, did you say uterus? Weird, but not really worth the additional attention she's gotten.

If I do, will a new gallbladder sprout from them?

No, but GWB will have to live with the knowledge that you have a lot of gall in Texas.

[sorry]

It won't nearly as much as he has, unfortunately.

Er, it won't be nearly as much as he has.

Jeez, typos are embarrassing.

I wonder who history will judge more harshly: this grieving (and yes, rather unstable and annoying) mother who jumpstarted the anti-war movement in America and tried to dismantle an administration descending into fascism... or the rest of us who did nothing at all but sit back and watch the whole thing as entertainment and occasionally bitch about it on our fucking computers.

Speak for yourself if you did nothing.
Not everyone did nothing.
Not everyone went insane and started having body parts removed for auction or ceremonial burial, but it doesn't mean they did nothing.
Geesh.

Who appointed you keeper of public morals?

Where she is buried and which parts are buried where, as long as she owns the property or has the consent of the owner, and it does not violate health regs, is up to her as far as I am concerned.

Maybe if you read the article you would have realized that it IS illegal and against health regulations. There are some fairly tight standards for the disposal of medical waste. Planting it in your garden is not one of those standards from what I've heard, even if you own the garden.

That is NOT how babies are made.

gross?

Wow, I never saw that post. That is very, very disturbing.

if by that you mean "some of the best true art you've heard of in a long time"!

I read the article, including the (very) selective quotes of Texas laws. They assume too much, the law gives a lot more slack in very rural low population density areas. Crawford is way the hell out in the sticks, the closest moderatly large town is Waco which is about 15 miles away, the closest big city is Fort Worth which is about 100 miles away. Out in very rural Texas the law does not forbid private grave yards. Now they are supposed to be marked as I recall, and have a minimum depth of burial, and maybe she broke the law in that way, but that it would not be a grevious offence if she did as long as no other crime (like a murder) was associated with it, she might get a fine.


If she buried them deep enough, then I doubt it is even a technical violation, as it is not technically a grave as in has a dead person in it.

If it is against health regulations given the very low population density, and the fact the tissue was buried, it is government being a busybody.

And the garden is way the hell out in the sticks and you bury it deep enough?

One the things that ticked me off most about Louisiana laws is that when my mother died, we had to use an official legal licensed herse to take her to the state line where once in Texas they were allowed to move her casket to my stepfather's truck and then he could drive the rest of the way to outside Roswell New Mexico for her burial in our family plot.

That was nothing but a shake down by the funeral home industry.

mmm, Sounds a lot like the Rick Santorum story. Plus a freezer. Good idea I'm thinkin.