Posted on 02/28/2007 3:06:39 PM PST by euphoriadev
Decades ago, we expected total victory against the Germans and the Japanese. We demanded it, for we knew what anything less would bring to our homeland--and yes, it was our homeland, regardless of our place of birth. We were united, together in the absolute, unshakeable belief that freedom was worth blood, even our own lives.
Many years later, the American Left called for the defeat and humiliation of our military, even going so far as to support the barbaric hordes of Islam in their quest to destroy America. The college-age hippies of 1969 were now parents and grandparents, with families who didn't have the faintest idea where Iwo Jima is and wouldn't dream of enlisting in the "imperialist army" of their nation. These past flower children, still apparently lost in the fog of free love and LSD, forgot their fathers' old "war injuries," received in places like Normandy, Bastogne, or Wake Island. Their children hated authority, hated America, and hated anything that stood in the way of the freedoms they abuses. To them, freedom of speech meant they should be able to wear their "F*** You" shirt to school.
During the War on Terror, it seemed as though these families were the only Americans left here at home, as our best and brightest went to Iraq and Afghanistan. The families of our heroes stayed quiet, their support showing in the form of tangible things like batteries and treats shipped in boxes with "We Love You" written on the side, in marker as permanent as their worry. For those who changed their blue star to gold, the pain of their loss often made them shy away from the pure, vitriolic hatred of the ever contradictory motto of the Left: "Support the troops…bring them home."
Meanwhile, the antiwar crowd marched in Washington.
And in the day-to-day grind of American weekday life, millions of patriotic Americans simply went to work and came home. We couldn't afford to miss work to stand on a street corner. We put our yellow ribbons on our cars and our flags in the window, hoping that the troops knew we cared. We yelled at the TV and the radio when appropriate and muttered to our friends about how infuriated we were at these people who thought liberty was a commodity. Our anger burned deeply, but slowly.
The antiwar crowd kept marching and declared themselves the majority. They had the funding, the celebrity backing, the media fascination. They were everywhere. They spray-painted the Capitol steps, sent money to the terrorists, and staged media feeding frenzies outside the President's home. They even held up their anti-American signs outside military hospitals, where soldiers and Marines who gave pieces of themselves in exchange for freedom tried to get used to life without their best friends, their limbs, and in some cases, their sanity.
The Cindy Sheehans and Jane Fondas of the nation got bolder, spurred on by the silence of those who kept their medals and memories locked away. It seemed as though there was no stopping the force of those who sought to bring the mightiest nation on earth to her knees.
But then, the antiwar groups announced plans to begin their next march at the Vietnam Wall. Fifty-eight thousand names cried out in protest, and America heard the call of her fallen.
We were finally angry enough.
It began like a quiet rumble, the hint of an impending storm. A small group of veterans slowly rose to their feet, their combat disabilities unable to hinder them this time. A gas station attendant, a lawyer, a doctor, a housewife. One by one, Americans stood, setting down their lives to answer the reveille, minutemen once again in the cause of freedom.
They came from New York City and Nowhere, Indiana. They drove in from the mountains of Idaho and flew in from Hawaii. They rose up from all walks of life, all financial situations. The wave rolled across the United States like a tsunami, determined to reach Washington, D.C. for one purpose: to deliver a message to the flower children that was forty years overdue.
The message was simple, and as thousands of Americans stood in stoic rows around the memorial, it reverberated off the ebony beauty of the Wall. The silence of their stand deafened the obnoxious antics of the defeatists and sent a clarion call like a beacon across the globe.
Half a world away, soldiers and Marines lifted their heads a bit higher and stood taller.
And at the Wall, as thousands of American faces reflected in the polished surface, the ghosts of 58,000 men smiled back in silent, grateful pride as their lips mouthed the message their countrymen had come so far to deliver:
Freedom.
I'm going. I know three other Gold Star parents who will also be there.
See you there! Deb
"...The antiwar crowd kept marching and declared themselves the majority. They had the funding, the celebrity backing, the media fascination....".
"THEY" have SO MUCH!! YOU meant " Media BACKING & SUPPORT" Right?! NOT just "Fascination"??--My CAT is "Fascinated" by a piece of STRING--the "MEDIA is in Full Blown LOVE! ADORATION!- Cut out their HEARTS for the left! at EVERY TURN!!
Maybe 10-15 years ago--I would have said that we had some "time" BEFORE being "over-run" totally in the escalation of "winning a side over"--but I was wrong!
WHY IS THIS EVENT SO DAMN IMPORTANT--BESIDES AS YOU SO CLEARLY AND PRECISELY PUT!!??
CAUSE NOW THE DEMS ARE--AT LEAST ACCORDING TOO TO THE MEDIA-
"-----IN CHARGE-- THE MAJORITY-- !!!!!
--AND THE PRESS LOVES REMINDING EVERY LISTENER/READER OF THAT ASSUMED FACT WITH EVERY ANNOUNCEMENT THEY MAKE!!
Use to be that when the media OR libbies SAID ,
"..and the MAJORITY of AMERICANS ( the SENATE, House, Public,whatever)...want, asked for,demands today..
NOW--- BECAUSE OF THIS ONE ELECTION CYCLE--the OTHER "Un-Informed--UN-Decided- EASILY LEAD American Voter
STARTS BELIEVING THAT !!
And THAT IS DANGEROUS!!
THEY have :
MEDIA 100%!
COURTS!! 100%!
Teachers!--UNIONS!!--those who control CAPTURED AUDIENCES!!
Hollywood-and it's $$$$$like you said!
And SOROS!!! and WAR MACHINES like the CLINTONS!!
and of course--
The MEDIA EVERYWHERE in the WORLD!!
now--High schoolers--college kids--
AND THEY KNOW 2008 IS THEIR LAST CHANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE SO THEY ARE GOING TO PULL OUT ALL OF THE STOPS!!
IF CONCSERVATIVES CAN NOT COME OUT AND SHOW SUPPORT AT EVERY SINGLE RALLY TIL 2008 WE ARE DOOMED!
Because there IS one Little Thing we did NOT have to worry about years ago as MUCH as we do today!
WHERE IS OUR GEORGE SORROS!! OUR MONEY BAGS to help out Our Orgs!! it IS the Money bag Conservativesthat Stand to Loose MORE than WE do really with a total Dem/liberal win in 08'!!
Bit what IS OUR BIGGEST DANGER!!??????
THE RHINOS!!
THE RHINOS!!
THE RHINOS!!
THE RHINOS!!
THE RHINOS!!
THE RHINOS!!
THE RHINOS!!
THE RHINOS!!
They have gotten the WRONG SIGNAL from US!! WE GAVE it to them! the last election cycle--THEY HAVE BECOME WORSE than the dems--when it camne to Trying to just KEEP THEIR POSITIONS for POWERS SAKE!!
And THEY will BURY US MORE Than ANY Liberal Horde!!
but IF WE CAN SHOW THEM!!
NOT LIKE the 7-9 TOTAL PEOPLE who came to the LAST D.C. Rally!!
but REALLY SHOW THEM--WE are OUT HERE!! and we WILL NOT VOTE for YOU-but rather the Newest Republican conservative In YOUR PLACE unless you CHANGE!!Things won't change!
They will go on with the falacy believing that--
"...since they DO NOT SEE "US" out there onthe streets--or HEAR US--that WE ARE NOT THERE ANYMORE!! or have "Changed" our minds!!"
Remeber what happened to that WALTERS?? Who was ORIGINALLY one of the "17" who Voted WITH the DEMS on that Non-Binding Resolution!??
THEN he got home--and his Constituants HAMMERED HIM with CALLS & LETTERS and a SHOW OF FORCE!!
So much that--they threatened him," Do that AGAIN--and YOU are OUT of here!!"
so he CAME RIGHT BACK!-Wrote that Letter stating, " I TAKE BACK what I previously said--my "CONSTITUANTS" had SPOKEN!!
"WE " have to do that with a show of FORCE on the 17th!!
March 17th is SO IMPORTANT--Dear GOD can't everyone who said they can't come for one reason or another see that!!
What do I have to do??
Set myself on fire with gasoline in Time Square! Since I am already dying anyhow what's a few months!!
AND THE ONE THING THIS MARCH 17th Actually
" WORKING FOR US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" is:
The LIBBIES will hardly be there--
The LIBBIES WILL HARDLY BE THERE!!!
The LIBBIES WILL HARDLY BE THERE!!!
THE LIBBIES WILL HARDLY BE THERE!!!
THE LIBBIES WILL HARDLY BE THERE!!
ISN'T HAT A GIFT FROM GOD THAT WILL PROBLY NEVER HAPPEN EVER AGIAN UNLESS THE LIBBIES NEXT RALLIES ARE ON NEWS YEAR EVE OR ANOTHER TEEN DRINKING DAY!!!
THEIR MAIN CRUX! THEIR MAIN SUPPORTERS--the TEEN AGERS/College frosh--will be out DRINKING!!
So we HAVE to take ADVANTAGE of this ONE SITUATION!
HOW MUCH MANNA FROM HEAVEN DO YOU WANT GOD TO PLACE DOWN INTO OUR HANDS!!!
HOW WILL WE ALL TREATTHIS GIFT THAT HAS TO COME DIRECTLY FROM GOD!!???
And if Played out right--and everyone makes the SACRIFICE to come--WE will outnumber THEM!
And they can not but help notice that!!
THE PRESS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO NOT NOTICE--
THE SENATORS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO NOT NOTICE THAT FACT!!
THE CONGRESS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO NOT NOTICE THAT FACT!!!
THE WORLD WILL NOT BE ABLE TO NOT NOTICE THATFACT!!
And IF we all can PROMOTE PICTURES showing US as the MAJORITY--then the WHOLE VENT OF MARCH 17TH Becomes
" OUR RALLY!!!" !!!!!!!!!! get It!!!!!!
Great thread!! and posts from everyone here!!
let's make this one count!
Darth AirBorne
HOW MANY MORE OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THIS ONE:
---A WEEKEND--
---A SATURDAY--
---VERY VERY EARLY ANNOUNCEMENTS--
---VERY VERY EARLY TIME TO PLAN AND SAVE MONEY TO GO AND BOOK!!!
---FINALLY A CHANCE THAT EVERYONE ASKED FOR-AN EVENT
ON---THE---WEEKEND--WHEN--THEY--CAN---GO!!
AND HARDLEY ANY LIBBIES!!
WHAT MORE DO YOU ALL WANT GOD TO DROP INTO YOUR LAPS!! THE WINNING LOTTO NUMBERS TOO!
And all I hear are lame excuses--then you know what??
The CONSERVATIVES will end up Getting: The Losing Presidential Candidate they DESERVE!
And if that happens--I will move away because I have money--and then I won;t have to worry about wasting MY and My families personal time making banners-posters--spendingmonies ontraveling-rooms-board-giving money away to others here--and themaybe I can have a NORMAL LIFE Until I get killed in the NEXT ATTACK by Terrorists elsewhere!!!
And YOU canall stay HERE listening to PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTONS'S "FIRE-SIDE" CHATS ON THE AIR/RADIO-PAPERS-WHICH SHE AND THE COURST WILL MAKE SURE THE DNC OWNS LOCK STOCK AND BARREL!
DA
BUMP to this thread! Everyone on FR should read this!!
(Sorry about double pinging some of you!)
Great column!!
Thanks for the ping.
Thank you GB! This is definitely something we all need to read....so I am *pinging* a few people too.
Another big ol' BUMP!!
BTTT!
Many thanks for posting this, euporiadev, and to you, ohio, for pinging me. Sure wish that I could be there shoulder to shoulder protecting more than the Wall against the trashy anti-war barbarians who have aligned themselves w/our enemies.
Thank you for the ping, ohioWfan.
God bless America...and those who defend her.
Thank you so much for the ping!
Speechless here.
I agree. Sorry in advance for any doubles pings!
I sure hope this gets a big draw. Michelle Malkin was pumping it!!
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