Sheehan, now famous for her camping outside of President George Bush’s Texas Ranch in Crawford, Texas, watched from the audience as Rosie Perez, aching with a mother’s pang and swelling in tears, reenacted Sheehan’s speech the day before Sheehan left for Texas.

"Do you think George Bush would interrupt his vacation to go visit the families of the twenty marines that died in Iraq? No, because he doesn’t care—he doesn’t have a heart," Perez said, quoting part of her speech. "When that filth spewing war monger George Bush was speaking after the marines died in Iraq, he said a few things that offended me, seriously offended me… He said, and this really drives me crazy, that he will stay in Iraq to complete this mission to honor the loved ones of the ones who had fallen. I don’t want him using my son’s death to continue the killing. I don’t want him to exploit the deaths of our troops to continue the killing."

Although Zinn was not able to attend, co-author Arnove was at the event. Arnove stressed that history should be interpreted oneself and not through the eyes of a historian. This is why he said the authors compiled all the speeches or essays that were significant of each time period so that readers could make their own conclusions.

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