Dear Cindy Sheehan

In ancient and medieval times a woman who had lost a husband or sons in war was quietly sheltered by her surviving family. If her grief turned to psychosis she was sent, in the Christian world, to a nunnery to live out her days in the peace and seclusion of the convent. It was understood that her "madness" was through no fault of her own and that she was a creature to be pitied and succored in her grief. However, it was also understood that her extreme protestations of grief could not be allowed to become a sickness that leached through the countryside sapping morale worse than any plague.

Cindy: get thee to a nunnery.