Talk:Casey Sheehan

Reenlistment?

I have questions about the statement of re-enlistment. News stories say that he didn't beleive in the Iraq War to beging with. If this is the case, why would he re-enlist? Citation is needed.

Because his mediawhore mother loves to lie about him in order to further her ridiculous cause. 68.83.23.147 03:48, 24 July 2006 (UTC) oorah

any other freeper style rumors about Casey?

--grazon 02:35, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

It's well documented that he both supported the war, the president, re-enlisted, and voluntary chose (no obligation being a mechanic) to go on the rescue mission which resulted in his death. News sources don't say otherwise, Cindy says otherwise. It would be easy enough for you to look up the countless sources of this information. 220.239.88.91 07:40, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok look, what we do know is that he wanted to join the military after graduating junior college, and did so. I bet he was good at what he did and enjoyed his experience, so he reenlisted. Then he went to Iraq as a mechanic. He very, VERY heroically volunteered to go into hell with his brothers in arms, and he died. He is a hero. His mother is outraged about his death since we were lied to with completely fake information ("intelligence") to invade in the first place, there is no end in sight, and so on. (And since WHEN did Americans give a hoot about Iraqi civilians?!)

What this guy did was courageous, and what his mother is doing is fighting for her country in a different way, and that is also courageous. And seriously, why should we keep losing our young men to fight somebody else's thousand year civil war?

moved to californi

not being savvy to u.s. politics, i don't know much about his story, and reading it for information, i have to say that the fact that he moved to some town in california seems rather useless without saying where he lived BEFORE. does anybody know? please post, if you do. Wencer 07:26, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

To simplify things, I removed that sentence and put the link to Vacaville down in the sentence about his secondary education. --Habap 15:45, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Why is his page 3 to 4 times shorter than his Mothers?

This angers me. He was a great American and deserves to be honored more than his disgusting mother.

68.83.23.147 03:48, 24 July 2006 (UTC) oorah

The reason is that article length has nothing to do with how honorable a person is. If it did. Henry Lincoln Johnson would have a far longer article than Joseph Stalin. If there is more notable, verifiable and interesting information on Casey, please include it, but don't get caught up in size. --Habap 11:47, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Is this a joke?

Since when did 1/3200th of the dead americans in iraq warrant their own page? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 211.28.220.254 (talk) 05:23, 20 March 2007 (UTC).

perhaps the above attitude explains why a page is needed. DGG 10:20, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

This is an encyclopaedia, not a soapbox for liberal rhetoric. 211.28.220.254 10:58, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Nor is this a soapbox for conservative rhetoric. Unless you can explain what was "liberal" about DGG's statement, please refrain from incendiary comments. Shabeki 07:17, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Casey Sheehan, thanks to his mother falls in line with WP:BIO for the following:

* The person has been the subject of published¹ secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject.²

• The person has been the subject of a credible independent biography.
• The person has demonstrable wide name recognition

Rawboard 03:03, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

I ran into this page after two or so links from a news article. The problem with your claim to notability is your secondary sources point to the mother, not Casey Sheehan. He, in fact, has not been the subject of the secondary sources, even though they might mention his name in one or two sentences. That leaves the Blackfive and the The Iraq Page sources. The first of those explicitly states that one of its tenets is to support the military. That's somewhat explicit bias, and certainly has some effect on the gist of the page. The last source is not enough for an article to stand on by itself. I'll slap a notability tag on here unless someone can find some better claim to notability with better sources. Kerrow 13:53, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/18/INGO0OEM1F1.DTL

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/morse200508180821.asp or any of the other 109,000 google results for "Casey Sheehan". You're a douche. Enjoy continuing to "slap" notability tags on biographies of people you're too ignorant to have heard of.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.105.212.177 (talk • contribs) August 1, 2007

Ah, thanks for the insult. Google hits doesn't necessarily relate to notability. And I'm willing to bet that a very large portion of the 'hits' are actually articles and web pages discussing his mother, not him.Kerrow 01:08, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Added song written about him from a country other than the USA (Canada), which shows international notability. Pustelnik (talk) 03:35, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

QUESTION RE: BACKGROUND

Why did Casey Sheehan enlist in the first place? In light of his mother's later rantings on the war, this would be useful in shedding light on her credibility as an anti-war spokesmen.12.75.134.117 23:20, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Sheehan's Grave Marker

The reference to the controversial episode where it came to light that there was not a headstone on his grave over 2 years after he died is more notable that either this article or the article about Cindy Sheehan is letting on. It needs to be mentioned in Cindy Sheehan's page, and needs to be further addressed on Casey Sheehan's page. The only postings do not explain the controversy, or that there was any problem at all, it just makes it seem as it was natural to ignore. The details, as reviewed at snopes.com[1], are extremely relevant to both Cindy and Casey's profiles and should be added.Chexmix53 (talk) 00:37, 27 February 2008 (UTC)