Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist.

[My son] 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.

My children were the center of my life.

I can't speak for the other people whose children have died, but I can speak for my family and the other members of Gold Star Families for Peace. We believe we're honoring our children by working for peace.

America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for.

War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class against other similarly poor, or disadvantaged humans, for nothing but the greed of the few. Only we the people can make war obsolete by not participating in the profound crimes of the profiteers and other war mongers.