Posted on 08/13/2005 6:55:59 AM PDT by kristinn
The Heart of Texas Chapter of FreeRepublic.com is holding a rally in Crawford, Texas today to show America's support for our troops, President Bush and the war on terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world.
The rally will be held at noon at the Crawford Civic Center at 1000 4th Street.
Freepers are coming from near and far to join the H.O.T. Chapter in Crawford. If you live within four hours drive of Crawford, it's not too late to hit the road and get on down there.
Folks in attendance will be calling in to me, Brad's Gramma and Jeff Head with live updates from the scene. I am told that cellphone coverage in Crawford is spotty. However, it may have gotten better of late.
We'll see.
Hat's off to Basil, Doctor Raoul, The Sarce and 2ndAmendmentMama (and anyone else) who've been scrambling the past two days to make this happen. Good luck!
RonDog Bump!
God bless you each and every one!
*L* I tried to get some close-up shots, because I knew the words on those great shirts wouldn't show up in the crowd scenes. We all envied them their gitmo duds!
I had not seen that and after driving 10 hours to and from Crawford today - if there was any question in my mind why I went - this letter says it all.
One of my daughters held a poster thanking the troops because the Iraqis could vote and she had pictures of the inkstained fingers on the poster. She got so many comments on it and as we were standing on the road looking over at Cindy's shanty town - a young guy from there walked across the road to look closer at it. He told her that he couldn't understand it and wanted to look at the pictures. He kept saying then "ok I understand it now" several times over. My daughter (SO PROUD OF HER) just looked straight ahead and would not have dialogue with him. I wish he could/would have read this letter you have posted.
We missed the FReepers - couldn't find them so fell into a couple other groups of good people just like them. Someone said this was like being back in the 50's when everyone was regular Americans supporting their troops and country.
Will post a couple pictures later and much thanks to basil and the others who organized this and got me out and going even tho we missed you.
Thanks each and every one. Our troops will hear of and see this pictures and know that Americans here at home stand square with them.
"So...there were 250 at the KLIF gathering and another 150 at ours? GREAT, that's 400 altogether!"
Add the one hundred that Mike Gallagher brought down from Dallas Friday evening, and you've got 500!
Now, it has another mission. Fenton has established a war room with CIP called The Iraq Policy Information Program (IPIP). Its main job is getting the anti-Bush foreign policy message out to the media and providing guests for talk shows. A featured speaker of the IPIP is former ambassador Joe Wilson, one of the Bush administrations most vocal enemies. Like Moveon.org and Win Without War, the contact for the Iraq Policy Information Program is Fenton Communications.
I did a search on the article and came up with two FR threads, which I have not yet had time to peruse.
freeperkiki, you have mail. (There's a link at the top center of this page).
Again...God bless. We are on target, now is the time to fire for effect!
You are so right about that. I think I read everything on FR about Klamath Falls. Thank you so much for that.
ADORABLE!!!
Thank you so much for driving 10 hours for this cause...
I just back from my granddaughter's birthday party...turned on Fox and saw hardly any coverage of the pro-troop groups..I knew Kasich wouldn't do it justice...
I am so proud of ya'll and envious as well! You didn't mention your daughter's age...is she young? What she did should make her proud and you have helped form a wonderful patriotic American!
Sorry, Jeff must have misunderstood me. My daughter did not talk at the rally but we were talking about the rally on the way home and about the sacrifices our troops make on a daily basis. We have 13 military spouses that work for us and all but one of them has been in Iraq in the last two years - the other went to Korea
Thanks to Jeff for relaying the updates and for everyone who attended. I know the soldiers and their families appreciate it very much.
A precious photo of our future! thanks for posting it!
Like me. I got there about the time things started, but I was far from the last to arrive. That would perhaps be the 4 guys on motorcycles, who the police "had a word with", (which took two patrol cars to do) before "clearing them", to come over to our group.
Good luck posting the pictures.
I am not experienced at it either.
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