Capitol Police have dropped charges against antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan after last night’s incident at the State of the Union address. They’ve also apologized to Sheehan, who was thrown out for wearing an antiwar T-shirt that said, “2245 Dead: How Many More?” Police also apologized to the wife of Republican Rep. Bill Young, who was ejected for wearing a “Support the Troops” shirt.

Sheehan has now published her version of events on the dailykos website. In it, she reveals that she at first did not want to attend the speech, even after she was given a ticket by California Democratic Rep. Lynn Woolsey. “I knew George Bush would say things that would hurt me and anger me,” Sheehan says. So she gave the ticket to another member of her small anti-war group. But then she found out that, “Lynn’s office had already called the media…” After that, Sheehan says, “everyone knew I was going to be there, so I sucked it up and went.”

Later in her account, Sheehan concedes that, although she did not want to be “disruptive,” she went to the event hoping to attract television cameras to the message on her shirt. “I wore the shirt to make a statement,” she says. “The press knew I was going to be there and I thought every once in awhile they would show me and I would have the shirt on.”