My 25th FRAnniversary today

Nov 9, 2000 I created my first & only account on FR, after a few years of merely lurking. The urge to post grew too strong to resist joining. Easily the best www-related decision I've ever made!
My sister Mollynme discovered FR first and alerted me to it. (She succumbed to cancer 8-1/2 yrs ago).

Unfortunately, today I learned of the passing of another Freeper who was with me and 8 or 10 others from the Fall of 2000 until at least 2006, in a faithful group who engaged in street corner activism, each of us making our own signs/posters: Former residents of Johnstown CO - WeldGOPHardline & his wife FireEngineRed (she had bright red hair) - moved out of state a few years ago, and her health later went seriously downhill. She just died this morning. How sad it happened on my 25 FRanniversary.

I guess the lesson here is that Freepers get old & sick too, just like everyone else.

I just read the rest of your message on the thread. I don’t remember ever organizing a FReep, but I did attend a couple up in Longmont, one in Ft. Collins, and one at Buckley AFB.

Well, the Gore-No-More street activism event you organized in Louisville was, I think, just before we both joined FR. So not technically a "Freep" just yet. I seem to remember you pushing a stroller(?) And your first name is J****, maybe? I'm a bit hazy on this all. There were at least 2 Freepers there - my sister & TRTeamer, and at least 2 pre-Freepers - you and I. RandallFlagg may or may not have been there.

But a year later after 9/11, these events were all official "Freeps" to counter the Dark Side of the street - the alleged "Pacifists" - who were all mega-hypocrites, as they never once protested a military action carried out by a Dem Pres such as Clinton or Obama, but ALWAYS railed against any use of force by RR or GHWB or GWB.

I rubbed shoulders w/ FiveToes / Tom Buchanan, WeldGOPHardline, FireEngineRed, SoftEngine, and a lot of VFW post members on a weekly basis. Freeps were in Ft Collins, Loveland, Greeley, Longmont, and military posts from Cheyenne to Denver, such as Warren AFB, Buckley AFB, and at least one other.

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