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Carly Sheehan

  • “Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son? / The torrential rains of a mother's weeping will never be done / They call him a hero, you should be glad that he's one, but / Have you ever heard the sound of a mother screaming for her son?”

    • Carly Sheehan,
    • "A Nation Rocked to Sleep," in Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, Stop the Next War Now ()

Carly Sheehan, U.S. poet, antiwar activist

(1980)