We know he loved Van Halen...

An update on Casey Sheehan:
On 25 May 2006, a headstone was finally placed at Casey's grave, one described thusly by the Vacaville Reporter: "The elegant marble slab is thick and emblazoned with a cross and delicate thickets of trees on both sides."

"Our Casey," reads an inscription on the front. "Ever faithful, kind, and gentle, good son, beloved brother, brave soldier, dear friend, you loved your family and lived your life serving others to the end." Six icons grace the other side, representing a military insignia, the theater, Eagle Scouts, Van Halen, the World Wrestling Federation and Superman.

That same publication also contacted Cindy Sheehan via e-mail for her comments on the placement of the headstone. Sheehan said she had paid for the tombstone herself and was part of a family effort to put it up, even though its installation saddened her.

"It is important for the rest of Casey's family to have one," she wrote. "I guess the pain of seeing it etched in marble that he is dead is another pain I will have to deal with."

The headstone was very expensive, Sheehan wrote. She said that the government should have paid for it because of its responsibility for his death.