The media made a big deal when some idiot ran down a bunch of makeshift crosses with the names of fallen soldiers that Sheehan and her supporters had used as props in their political theater. But no one thought to ask whether the families of the fallen soldiers whose names appeared on the crosses ever gave Cindy Sheehan permission to use their loved ones’ names in her political protest. According to blogger AngryGWN, she didn’t, and some families are upset.

I wrote about how the name of fallen soldier Robert L duSang appeared on one of the Camp Casey crosses that Cindy Sheehan and her group had put up, claiming the group was speaking on behalf of all of those dead (and by implication, their surviving families), not just Casey Sheehan.
I wondered if the duSang family had given their permission.
Apparently, permission was not sought for any of the names.

A few months ago, a captain in the Army wrote a letter to this blog asking if I knew of any way to ensure that his name would never be used by those whose politics he finds “despicable.” It’s sad that the anti-war left is so opportunistic that soldiers have to worry about this on top of everything else.