Sheehan, who once protested outside of President Bushes ranch for 26 days straight writes in her on-line journal….

“Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives. It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years and Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy and that hurts the most.”

It’s sad to believe that we live in a time when we know more about our favorite TV- celebrities, sport stats and up coming reality shows than we do about the countries around us and the impact of our actions on a global scale.

This is truly a sad day.