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This is an analysis of a sample of writings by Cindy Sheehan to identify her rhetorical strategies in her anti-war rhetoric. A selection of artifacts has been made covering the time of her activation after the death of her son through the time of her hunger strike in the summer of 2006. This analysis deems Sheehan as a feminist who arches from second to third wave feminist in voice. It also examines how Sheehan reframes the United States from a country with many small family units to a single national family unit. And finally, this paper will observe how Sheehan violates the expectation of civility with her cynical approach. Combining together, it is found that Sheehan holds many contextual factors that create a unique rhetoric of grief that may not be duplicated if all contextual factors are not identical for another rhetorician.