Also, my mom. My mom was moved to a private room, and she is doing physical therapy now. Her right side was paralyzed. She had a major stroke, but it wasn’t a hemorrhagic stroke, so they are expecting her to at least partially recover, and I want to thank everybody in America for all of their thoughts and prayers. As a matter of fact, everybody from all over the world was praying for my mom. I told my mom she was the most famous stroke victim, you know, at this time. So, she smiled about that. She tried to tell me that she loved me when I left.

And one good thing about Camp Casey and what we started here is that when I left it didn't end. When I left it thrived and it grew. And it’s because I am not alone. I'm not the only one that wants the answers to these questions. There’s the people standing behind me here, but there’s thousands of military families, hundreds of Gold Star families who want the same answers to the questions. You know, and I never, ever got up here and said, “I speak for every single Gold Star family, I speak for every single military family.” I’ve never said that. But I know I speak for thousands of them. I know we speak for thousands of them when we want to know what is the noble cause our children died for, what is the noble cause they are still fighting for and dying for every day. And that is what we want the answers to the questions. And there’s millions of Americans here with us, thousands here actually in Crawford who want the same answers. They don't have what I like to call skin in the game, but we are all affected. Humanity is affected when one country wages an illegal and immoral war on another country. It affects our entire humanity. And that’s why America is behind us, saying we want the answers to those questions, too.

And there’s other people who disagree with our position who have lost their children. And I know with Karen here and Melanie and Susan, we respect their rights to their opinions, because at the end of the day or at the beginning of this quest, we started in the same way, with our loved one coming home in a flag-draped coffin. And if there is any family who says that they believe their child died for a noble cause, I say that is your right if that helps you get through the day, if that helps you in your pain because we all -- we might not have the same politics, but trust me, we have the same pain. And we do what we have to do to get through our pain, and we hope they respect us for that, and we respect them in any way they have to do to get through their pain.

AMY GOODMAN: Cindy Sheehan, speaking with other mothers and families who have lost loved ones in Iraq or have them deployed in Iraq or the veterans themselves who have returned.

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