She's Not Cindy Sheehan

A mother's journey: Educator helps build Afghan school in son's memory By Nicole Sequino

[Sally Goodrich, a] North Adams educator whose son died in the World Trade Center attacks will leave for Afghanistan this weekend to see the completion of her yearlong project to build a 16-classroom school for more than 500 children ages 6 to 13.

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Goodrich, a Title 1 coordinator, and her husband, Donald W. Goodrich, a North Adams attorney, have raised more than $180,000 for the school project, which was inspired by their son, Peter M. Goodrich, and his love for learning about other cultures.

I heard about her on ABC News, while NBC is all Sheehan, all the time, but they don't tell us what Dave Kopel does about Cindy Sheehan in Kopel: Sheehan's radical views little noted:

In an interview with Mark Knoller of CBS News, she explained that the foreigners who have to come to Iraq to battle the U.S. military are "freedom fighters." (Video at the anti-war Web site ["freedom fighters" is at the six minutes point]). Conversely, she described last January's vote in Iraq as a "sham election," in her Tuesday entry on her weblog on Michael Moore's Web site...

In an Aug. 16 interview with Chris Matthews on Hardball, Sheehan explained that the invasion of Afghanistan was just as wrong as the invasion of Iraq, and she would be equally angry if her son had died in Afghanistan: "Why do we send in invading armies to march into Afghanistan when we're looking for a select group of people in that country?" Yet the news stories in the Denver papers never mention her belief about the immorality of the Afghanistan war.

Sheehan has explained that the real global terrorist problem is the United States. Speaking at San Francisco State University on April 27, she announced, "The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush." Rebuking people (such as [The Denver Post] editors who created the "Portraits of Valor" series) who claim that serving in the military is patriotic, she stated: "I'm going all over this country telling moms: 'This country is not worth dying for.' " She denounced the idea that soldiers should "defend this morally repugnant system we have." (Transcript)