Cindy Sheehan lays seige to vacationing president's Crawford ranch.

A brave young soldier who was killed April 4th 2004 on the dusty streets of Baghdad.  He was on a voluntary misssion to rescue fellow soldiers pinned down by insurgent fire.  It was was the soldier's second tour of duty in Iraq. He died performing the very duty he had told his mother he had to return to Iraq to do.  He was defending his fellow soldiers.  He was just 24 years old.
 
     By anyone's reckoning or standards that soldier, Casey Sheehan died a hero.
 
     On Saturday Aug. 6th 2005 Cindy Sheehan, the outraged mother of Casey Sheehan, arrived in Crawford, Texas and pitched herself a small pup tent in a ditch that runs along the road there leading up to George Bush's 1,583 acre Prairie Chapel Ranch (also know as White House West and announced to the world she was staying encamped there, sleeping nights in her tent, until the president of the United States George W. Bush came out to talk to her face-to-face, commander-in-chief to angry mom, and explain why the nation was lied to during the build-up to the war in Iraq, about both reasons for and about the urgent necessity of it.     Cindy's message.
 
Four days later, On Wednesday Aug 10th the president acknowledges at a press conference he is aware of Cindy's encampment ( which has come to be referred to as 'Camp Casey' ) at his gate.

"I sympathize with Mrs. Sheehan," Bush says. "She feels strongly about her position, and she has every right in the world to say what she believes. This is America. She has a right to her position, and I thought long and hard about her position. I've heard her position from others, which is: Get out of Iraq now. And it would be a mistake for the security of this country and the ability to lay the foundations for peace in the long run if we were to do so"

 No mention is made of Cindy's accusations of administrative deceit leading up to the war and no indication is given by the president he intends to meet with Cindy ever.  That evening a rumor runs through Camp Casey that the protestors, now numbering around 50, will be arrested at midnight but the night passes without incident.
 
     By Friday Aug 12 the stable population of Camp Casey nears 100 and During the day Veterans For Peace members from southern California install a replica of the Arlington West memorial along the side of the roadway near Cindy's camp. It consists of almost 1000 white crosses bearing the names of soldiers killed in Iraq since President Bush declaired an end to the 'major hostilities on board a battleship on March 1st, 2003.
 
 That afternoon George Bush's motorcade passes within 100 ft. of Cindy Sheehan on his way to a 2 million dollar republican party fund raiser at a nearby neighbor's ranch.  No report if the president saw either Cindy or the crosses. Cindy's husband Patrick Sheehan also files for divorce back in Calf. siting 'irreconcilable difference'.
 
Next day, Wednesday 13th. Cindy is Front Page News
 
Cindy has been joined by more Gold Star moms.