2005 vacation generated national attention and provided a boost to the anti-war movement,
stops for a moment after speaking at the rally on the Elllipse. (To her left is Medea Benjamin,
co-founder of Code Pink: Women for Peace). Sheehan, whose son Private Casey Sheehan
was killed in Iraq in 2004, started the vigil on August 6 seeking to meet with Bush. Over the
next several weeks thousands of people made the trek to what was dubbed "Camp Casey."
