Augusta Maine Counter Protest Report

N/A | 3/20/2004 | Armymarinemom

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Nice to meet you, too!
I had a sign and a flag, too..
Sure was blustery that day!
Take care!
Ms.B

[MS.BEHAVIN]

PING!
Ms.B

[SheLion]

I heard their "thousand" were BUSSED IN! This state SCARES me!

Thanks for going, armymarinemom! You do us Freepers proud!!!! If I didn't live way up here in Aroostook, I, too, would have been there with you!

This picture was taken around Bangor at one of the rally's.

[armymarinemom]

I love that picture. I wouldn't doubt that they shipped people in for Augusta. During the summer a lot of our local protesters come from the coast. Last year there were bright orange posters all over downtown Bangor offering summer work of political activism.

[Preech1]

I am going to email all five pictures to a friend in Mosul serving with the Maine national guard, he'll get a hoot out of it!

[bk1000]

" I was at the Atlanta rally."

I wish I had known there was an Atlanta rally, I'd have been there! I kept looking, and saw nothing on FR. How did I miss it?

[U S Army EOD]

We put it on the Georgia page several times.

[TankerKC]

We put it on the Georgia page several times.

You may want to post to Alabama also. I would have made the time to be there. Thanks for being there!

[U S Army EOD]

I will pass that on to my group and we will do that in the future. We probably need to develop some ping list for those type of operations.

[bk1000]

"We put it on the Georgia page several times."

That would explain it. I didn't know there was a Georgia page.
Perhaps greater diligence on my part is necessary.

[chief7]

TO UNCLE JAQUE. YOU DID A GREAT JOB POSTING THE PICTURES THAT I HAD TAKEN. AT THE BEGINING OF YOUR POST, YOU MISSPELLED MY NAME. BUT I UNDERSTAND. MY FIRST NAVY JACK FLAG IS BEING HELD BY A PERSON THAT DID NOT HAVE A FLAG, SO I ASKED HIM IF WANTED TO HOLD IT WHILE I TOOK SOME PICTURES.

[armymarinemom]

We must have made a good impression with the Maine Peace Group up here. They included the counter protesters as part of their group in photographs.
Page 4 March 20th Protest

This is from a link listed on the Maine Veterans for peace website which has recently been moved off of U Maine's server.

[Libertina]

They left as always unhappy and still dirty
ROTFLOL You were awesome, clear in message, and helpful to others there as well! Great After-FReep report :)
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