2,500 dead: How many more? (Cindy Sheehan)

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2,500 dead: How many more?
By Cindy Sheehan

On Feb. 1, I was arrested at the State of the Union address for wearing a Veterans for Peace shirt that read: "2,245 Dead. How many more?"

A little more than four months later, we are now tragically marking the deaths of 255 more of our brave and wonderful young American soldiers.

So today, with 2,500 dead, I ask again: How many more?

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Over the last year, I've spoken at high schools that have about 2,000 to 2,500 students on campus. I ask them to close their eyes and visualize an empty school.

Only then can they begin to relate to this devastating number.

But for those of us who have lost a son or a daughter or a brother or a sister or a father or a mother in this war, the number one is more than enough.

One empty chair at the table.

One folded flag on the mantel.

One driverless car sitting in the driveway waiting for the finance company to come and pick it up.

One person never coming home.

One broken family that cannot be repaired.

How many more?