Posted on 05/27/2004 7:37:47 PM PDT by Jewels1091
ASHWAUBENON, Wis. - Army Sgt. Nicole Delvaux still limps from shrapnel wounds suffered in Iraq, but she said Thursday it was important to her to attend a rally for President Bush.
"I want people to know that he is getting support from the people who are over there and recently came back," the recent Purple Heart winner said after a down pour rain sent about 100 people at the rally scurrying for cover.
Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Mark Green organized the Republican rally at the Brown County Veterans Memorial near where Democratic President candidate John Kerry planned his own rally later Thursday night.
Kerry's stop in Green Bay is part of an 11-day campaign to focus on national security.
Green, U.S. Senate candidates Tim Michels of Oconomowoc and state Sen. Bob Welch of Redgranite and veterans spoke at the afternoon rally.
Delvaux, a member of the National Guard's 32nd Military police company out of Milwaukee and Madison, was wounded last December in Iraq when shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade hit her.
The soldier said in an interview that being in the United States as war has become open to criticism in a presidential campaign was difficult.
"It is hard to see the negativism and then see it used as a ploy in the campaign," the 23-year-old Green Bay woman said.
Cathy Rauwald, 48, of Green Bay, criticized Kerry's military service with the sign she carried: "3 Purple Hearts over a few scratches ... then 1 quick discharge. Kerry War hero? Not."
"I don't like his character," Rauwald said. "I don't think he is leadership material. I don't see it in him. I don't feel it in him."
Joe Repya, 58, a retired military officer from Minnesota, told the crowd he volunteered to serve another two years and expects to be back in uniform soon and go to Iraq.
"We have a president with a strong backbone. Appeasement does not work," Repya said. "Ask yourself, who does Osama bin Laden want to be president?"
Ashwaubenon is my hometown! (It's a suburb of Green Bay) I was at the event.
This cat must be a FReeper.
Green Bay has a suburb?
If they were democrats, it would have been dubbed "The Million Patriot March" by the press.
Yes, it has several, actually. FReeper ServesURight was supposed to FReep Ketchup Boy (he also lives in GB but on the other side of town) but it was a no-go, he later called and told me. Both his wife and daughter were ill. Talk about bad timing....he had a creative plan were he and some other people were going to disguise themselves as Kerry supporters and then when Ketchup Boy is about 5 minutes into his speech they were going pull the pro-Kerry signs out (which would have displayed the blue Bush/Cheney signs) and bang flip-flops together.
Green, U.S. Senate candidates Tim Michels of Oconomowoc and state Sen. Bob Welch of Redgranite and veterans spoke at the afternoon rally.
Tim Michels is a former Army Airborne Ranger.
He also has a nice commercial against PNTR for China, one of my pet issues, and a good ad contrasting his support for the Patriot Act with Feingold's opposition.
Those who receive these commendations and awards do so as an earned recognition of that degree of valor and fidelity to duty and his brothers-in-arms and mission accomplishment in excess of the norm of acceptable service.
To describe a recipient as a "winner" is to render an insult. To be sure, it is probably an innocent and unintended insult, but an insult, innocent or malicious, is an insult nonetheless.
That term bothered me also.
ditto on that. I never saw myself enter in any lottery or competition to receive any awards,ribbons,medals or citations. I earned every one I have, except for a couple of AAM's, sometimes they are handed out like candy.
Tim Michels BUMP. There's a picture with him and George Bush I and Barbara Bush. Michels is the best GOP candidate to take on Feingold. Russ Darrow's commercials are a joke.
Bump for later.....
Congratulations on a great FReep!
I was at the GOP rally but I didn't get a chance to FReep Ketchup Boy.
Did you hold your nose and get anywhere near Mr. al-Q'erry?
Nope (my Mom's in the hospital--she's okay & should get out today). And, as far as I know, his plane didn't even sully my air space.
The disappointment was not being able to freep him in an appropriate manner. The other disappointment was having the pro-Bush/anti-Kerry protest scatter amid a downpour just as one of the local news stations went live to them.
I hadn't decided who I was going to vote for in the primary, but after seeing Darrow's commercials, it's not him.
What's with that music? Those ominous minor chords make me think I'm waiting for Freddy Krueger to come crashing in through the door.
Yuppers. Ashwaubenon is on the SW side of Green Bay. Across the street from the rallies is the newly renovated Lambeau Field. Allouez is on the SE side of Green Bay. Then there's Bellevue, S side of Green Bay, Howard to the W, Suamico to the NW (not to be confused with Little Suamico)...we could talk about De Pere, S of Green Bay, but that's a separate city.
There aren't any suburbs to the north of Green Bay. You'll have to look at a map to figure out why.
It's a common mistake made by journalists. Just another in a long list of sloppy writing and error-in-fact reporting from our "watchdogs."
I hope your Mom is OK!! Out in time for the holiday, though!
Bummer about the FReep TV coverage, but at least you had clean airspace.
(I'm glad you caught the Ashwaubenon question, too!) ;o)
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