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Sometimes I hate HTML.
Can you find the horse's ass in this picture?
I really don't like HTML. I haven't learned how to use it and I don't really plan on doing so anytime soon.
I was the start of that conflagration. I held a sign up that had something about A.N.S.W.E.R. on it in front of that short-haired woman as she was going to take a picture of MOAB. Well, the short-haired woman got her knickers in a twist. She had to start yammering and everyone else came over and there it went. I finally faded into the background and eventually the cops suggested to her that she needed to move on.
Counterdemonstrators send message to troops
By Kevin Maurer
Staff writer
Ed Fisher stood at Woodside Avenue and Hay Street clutching a handmade sign to show his support for his wife.
She is deployed to Iraq with Fort Bragg's 1st Corps Support Command.
Fisher said he talked with her by telephone Friday night about the anti-war rally scheduled for Saturday. She told him soldiers are proud of the people who show up to counter the war protesters.
''I am here to support the troops," Fisher said.
He and about 200 other people met at 11 a.m. Saturday on the high ground across from Rowan Park in Fayetteville to show their support for American soldiers and the mission in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was a counterdemonstration to Saturday's anti-war rally in the park. The counterdemonstrators - from members of a group called Free Republic to military family members to bikers from Rolling Thunder, a POW-MIA advocacy group - called the spot where they stood the ''American Zone.''
''We learned from Vietnam. No one answered their protests then," said Lynn Huber, a chapter chairwoman for the Old North State chapter of the Free Republic.
This is the second year in a row an anti-war rally on the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq has drawn a counterdemonstration. Like rival sports fans, the groups tried to outyell each other as the war protesters marched from the Cumberland County Health Department to Rowan Park.
Scott Kerr drove from Greensboro to take part in the counterdemonstration. He held a sign that with a picture of the earth and the words ''Stop global whining."
''They have a right to protest, but it is totally disrespectful to the people that have their necks out there right now," Kerr said. ''Its disheartening that they would go to a military base."
The fact that the war protesters chose Fayetteville angered others as well.
''They came here to make our military families feel like there is a lack of support, and that is simply not the case," said Anne Hladtk. ''Why didn't they go where policy is made?"
Hladtk, who is 25, is married to a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. He was sent to Baghdad to help provide security for the elections.
The protests reminded Diane Fanning of an earlier conflict. During the Vietnam War, she said, the protests had a negative effect on the morale of troops. She doesn't want that to happen again.
''These are the same types of people who protested against the war when my husband was over there," she said.
Last year, she was with her husband at the rally. He has since died, but she was back, armed this time with white foam hands - each with one finger dipped in purple paint. The hands were to remind people of the Iraqi election, during which voters had their fingers marked with ink. Fanning and other demonstrators said the election showed that Americans are making progress in Iraq.
''Eight million Iraqis gave Saddam the finger," she and others chanted.
Response to march
The counterdemonstrators held signs and yelled slogans as the war protesters passed on their march to Rowan Park.
''Peace cannot be achieved by sitting and letting airplanes fly into your towers," yelled one of the "Freepers" - what the Free Republic members called themselves.
''Swim to Cuba. Free health care," yelled another.
Organizers kept the two sides apart. Emotions heated up when the war protesters carried cardboard coffins draped in American flags past the Freepers. The coffins were meant to symbolize North Carolina soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
''Those men fought for your freedom. Shame on you," Bill Huber yelled.
The anti-war activists' assertion that they support the troops by protesting the war fell on deaf ears. The counterdemonstrators argued that the protests were exactly the opposite.
''I don't think they really support the soldiers. I think what what they are doing here is energizing our enemies and demoralizing our troops," Daniel John Brady said.
He is a former Black Hawk helicopter crew chief in the 82nd Airborne Division. He got out of the Army in 1988 when he was paralyzed in an accident and confined to a wheelchair.
Everyone wants the soldiers to come home, he said, but not until the job is done in Iraq.
''I want them home as soon as possible," Brady said. ''Who is pro-war?"
-Fayetteville Observer, Sunday, March 20, 2005
