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Can you really identify?
What comes into your mind when you first see this picture of Cindy?
Have you felt as she is feeling?
Can you tolerate the loss?
What have you to say about this and her expression?
What have you to say, period?
I have lost a child. I know the void felt in the heart. It is just not right that a child should go before their parent. I know her grief. I cry along with her. I understand. My heart aches as hers does. I, at times, feel as if life is not worth the loss one has to give for living it.
I just ask for your prayers for her in your own way and maybe it will help her find some sort of peace to live the rest of her life on. Pray for all of us moms and dads who have lost children. WE feel her pain so very well. I see it, I hear it, I smell it, I touch it. My heart aches with her…
I want to send honors to Oui, how linked me to this article. I think you very much.
To the rest of you, really get down deep in your heart and really think about her pain. I did and I now have such an ache in my heart just looking at the pain her face. I know how she must feel…God bless her…..
Fifteen years ago, my older brother vanished while on a business trip. After the largest search operation ever put together in that state (conducted from a Park and Ride lot off 95), he remained missing until 2 years later, when he was found in a gravel pit.
When I look at Cindy at Camp Casey, I am reminded of what it feels like to keep vigil by the side of the road for someone you love. I’m reminded of how that loss changed my family, especially my mother, forever. I cry.
When I see Cindy with her picture of Casey, and notice the resemblance in their faces, I imagine how I would feel if I were in her place, with a picture of my son. I cry.
I hope I would have her strength, and am so thankful that she is doing this in the hopes that othes won’t have to know her pain.
I can’t go to Texas to show my support, but I am going to DC…
when I saw this picture, I just fell apart….I do not know what else to say…As I sit here with such sadness, I simply feel hurt…
As a young girl, I could wrap my mind around this feeling…surely my mother felt this fear when I was in the military….it is something I just never gave a thought to. NOw I know…
CabinGirl, I am so very sorry for your loss…I can only send out a cyber hug for you. HUGGGGGGG
I’m sorry for your loss, too. It’s something you just can’t describe adequately, isn’t it?
That picture dredges up so many feelings. The black hole of pain, my family used to call it.
you got that one right! there are some days and then there are some days. this seems to be one of them “some days” for me.
Hugs and love to both of you, Brenda and CabinGirl. Unbelievable losses. And it figures that you two are among the most loving and warm people here.
Susan, I have been around death all my adult life. I have lost both of my parents, other relatives, friends, patients, military friends and just loved ones. I hate it even when an animal dies. I simply and honestly feel some sort of loss with each and every one.
I am the only one who does my job at this small hospital in TN and I personally took on a challenge for this year. I will not have any deaths in my unit what so ever, if I could help it. I have stomped and graveled with my dr and other drs over this and said that they must have a sincere and good reason to give to me a patient that is on deaths door to hurry on the process….this is how I have felt for ever so long….It took until just two weeks ago…I had my first death..I simply do not like that dark form of my job. I have had all of this I care to have. As I get older, I see much of it so senseless and unnecessary for the most part.
After I lost my daughter, I was back at work within a weeks time….Not because I had to be, I wanted to be for in my work, I get lost and do not think about my own personal trials in life. I dwell on others and their problems and that is what it was that I needed and I did so now I think I find I have got more grieving to do that was left behind…
When I saw that simple picture of Cindy, it really did hit me smack in the face of the horror of her grieving process she is in. Until she can work it out and in the process give to us the peace she will find in her own life, then and only then will she and we will find a way to resolve this horror in our own hearts of hearts.
I know without any reason to doubt, God is in her heart and will help her through this tragedy and give her the strength it takes to do what she has to do..
I did and so will she…we all do in one form or another. Humans are such a wonderful creature. God surely know what he was doing when he made us…I am sorry that others of the human race can not feel what she and those of us have felt. I think dubya is in such a bubble that to even feel anything is not possible. If he did feel, he would have singled her out asap and found common ground to be with her on. He would have done what it would take to make her feel better, if at all possible. But no not him..the jerk…for the lack of saying bad words here about him. I do not hate, but you know I am finding it really hard not to do that emotion with the likes of him and his kind. He is not a Christian as I am lead to believe a Christian is, for if he were, we would not be in the shape that we are in…speaking of America and the ppl in it.
With Cindy, the eyes are the pathways to the soul and I can see the heartache and misery she is feeling. It doesnt take anything special to see it. I can almost feel as if I could touch her face, it would make things better…I know..I know…dont tell me…I know….but that is how I felt this morning….I just wanted to make it better for her..
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Cindy’s facial lines characterize a strong woman, determined to fulfill Casey’s goal in life, not to let his death end solely in her own sorrow.
Cindy stood tall, inspires people who had failed to acknowledge the truth of needless death and destruction every day in Iraq. She is telling all who care to listen, about Casey’s goal in life.
As you so clearly analyze from your own life’s experience, I do hope Cindy takes the moments to grieve the death of Casey, and not by drowning in the unrelenting fury of press, cameras and reporters.
May she find continued support from her loved ones.
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How can your heart not break for her.
I just hope that Cindy can succeed where others have failed!
I think she already has. It is truly amazing her tenacity and endurance of life and her circumstances.
I think it is just horrible that dubya has treated her like he has. America will she him for who he really is at this point.