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News from Jim Robinsons van in the You Don't Speak For Me Tour
Phone call from SoldiersPrayingMom and Jim Robinson 100 miles from Yuma | 8/24/2005 - 4:00PM PDT | Swordmaker

Posted on 08/24/2005 5:28:57 PM PDT by Swordmaker

I just spoke with SoldiersPrayingMom and Jim Robinson on the caravan about 100 miles out of Yuma. Jim reports the weather is about 108º outside but nice and cool inside his van. Jim reports they are making good time and are on schedule.

Several more vehicles have joined the caravan along the way and they have been well received at all stops. Protesters are always there being obnoxious.

After a good conversation with Jim, he handed me back to SoldiersPrayingMom.

As many of you know, SoldiersPrayingMom (Ruth) is the mother of freeper jmpmst4u2 (Greg), a US soldier working with the Iraqi Wolf Brigade, who has been allowing us share in his "Greg's letters home" by allowing me to post them on FreeRepublic. Jmpmst4u2 has had some remarkable experiences in Iraq.

Yesterday, his mother was meeting up with the "You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy" caravan in Sacramento to ride down to Fresno to join Jim Parkinson for the rest of the tour, when her husband said "Hey, Ruth, that guy over there looks a lot like Greg!" He was right... because it WAS Greg, home for a 14 day leave!

Ruth was in a quandary. Here was her son home to spend some time with his family, and she was on her way to confront Cindy Sheehan in Crawford, TX. After hugs and lots of weeping, she told Greg of her quandary. He said "Mom, I want you to go. I need you to go. The guys over there in Iraq need you to go."

"It was," she said, "the hardest decision I have ever made."

When asked by Marine Moms' Deborah Johns "Why are you here... your son is home for a visit." Ruth replied "I have my orders from my sergeant... I have to go!"

Greg was the man quoted in the AP article on the caravan who confronted the protesters in Sacramento, telling them "You are ruining the morale over there!" (Incidentally, his Mom and Jim did not know about the article... I got to tell them.;^)> )

Ruth reported that she and Deborah Johns were interviewed by this morning in Los Angeles.


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Front Page News; US: Arizona; US: New Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: caravan; cindysheehan; moveamericaforward
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To: Saundra Duffy

Great report, thanks! I met with them in L.A. but could not join up though I was invited... :-) Had to wave them on as they drove off into the sunset... true story.


201 posted on 08/25/2005 2:24:29 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Remembering our Heroes today and every day. . . "Operation Gratitude")
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To: Yellow Rose of Texas
I'm guessing...Hmmmm -- Each, would get 71 nights of R&R!
Ah heck, LOL, I don't know!
202 posted on 08/25/2005 2:27:05 PM PDT by Smartass (Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió)
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To: Yellow Rose of Texas
...but what do women get?

Didn't you hear about the 36 house-keepers, the 18 cooks, the 17 gardeners and yard men in tank tops, and that one tanned pool boy?

203 posted on 08/25/2005 2:30:53 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
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To: Yaelle
Rush WAS talking about FReepers getting involved, just today

I know...listening. :D

204 posted on 08/25/2005 2:35:09 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
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To: Yaelle

the Media Revolution of which FR, Rush, and a few others are most visible has truly changed the country .. and, need I say, for the better? (with a long way to go, what with 40 years of D domination, RINOs, etc). I also think that absent FR we might not have had a President Bush, either ... the protest at "Cheney's House" was maybe the most effective out-of-court weapon in the GOP arsenal (and I think gave the Supremes the courage they needed to make the right decision in Bush v. Gore).


205 posted on 08/25/2005 3:09:30 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: BykrBayb

Okay, you win! Good one.


206 posted on 08/25/2005 3:27:44 PM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: pGfwabf

The How About poster is being specially prepared for Crawford and will be ready tomorrow. I think the troops will have some good laughs over it being there! The retro sarcasm just kills me! LOL!


207 posted on 08/25/2005 3:43:26 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (Undocumented border patrol agent.)
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To: ladtx
We'll try to make it. Can't promise tho' as I'm still recovering from cancer surgery from a week ago caused by too much sun in years past.

Then if you do come, wear light colored clothing. Including a wide brimed hat (or if you must a "baseball" cap" and a long sleeved shirt.

I went out and bought another "Cowboy" hat last night just for the occasion. My arms are pretty tanned, so I probably don't need the long sleeves, but I'll try to inventory my available light long sleeved shirts anyway and decide Saturday morning. Same with my boots, I might wear 'em and I might wimp out and wear my Reebocks. I wouldn't worry *too* much about the possibility of snakes. :) It's public park and football field. The snakes will be be scared witless and will likely stay out in the brush where they can hide. It'll be the numbers on our side that will scare 'em. As far as the folks on the other side, well you've seen 'em. :)

208 posted on 08/25/2005 4:02:19 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: Swordmaker

I saw Hannity and Colmes. They had Miltary Families Speak Out and CNS. MFSO said there were no black caskets or Maimed for a Lie signs in front of Water Reed Hospital. Liaring Pigs. She was protesting for Veteran's Benefits and she was not aware what was going on. Make you sick!

Keep your cameras ready!


209 posted on 08/25/2005 6:16:40 PM PDT by Milligan (Damn the torpedos! Full speed ahead!)
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To: ladtx

Hi, Ladtx

It would be great if you could meet the caravan in Waco.

I wish I could be there. I am anxiously waiting word from Crawford.

Go Caravan .... Go Freepers ..... Go GWB

Darn, I wish I could have tagged along for more than 25 miles.


210 posted on 08/25/2005 8:46:59 PM PDT by JustAmy
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To: EDINVA

Yes. THANK G-D for the new media!!!! FR is making a crucial difference.


211 posted on 08/25/2005 9:51:46 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Milligan
Again, the enemy and his facilitators, i.e. the enemy within, has 'made it personal', with all this "MOM" stuff, so more Americans could "relate to the war". I.e. they 'put a face on it'.

Well, two can do that.

If anyone has a servicemember in their family in Iraq, consider this as a huge placard:

"I SUPPORT MY MARINE (or ARMY, AIRFORCE, RESERVE GUARD) SON (or BROTHER, SISTER, FATHER, GRANDSON, COUSIN) IN IRAQ AND HIS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF"

Go get 'em Freepers. Eagles up

212 posted on 08/26/2005 7:14:08 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (**AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT IS NOT SO MUCH "WHO" WE STAND FOR, BUT RATHER "WHAT" WE STAND FOR**)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
The frontlines for home land terrorism is in Crawford and Walter Reed.
213 posted on 08/26/2005 7:31:59 AM PDT by bmwcyle (We broke Pink's code and found a terrorist message.)
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To: bmwcyle

Your right bmcyle we are at the frontlines.
The pen is mightier than the sword. Blogs away!


214 posted on 08/26/2005 8:23:23 AM PDT by Milligan (Damn the torpedos! Full speed ahead!)
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To: Milligan

It is time for America to wake up to the fact that the world socialist are at the door.


215 posted on 08/26/2005 8:25:43 AM PDT by bmwcyle (We broke Pink's code and found a terrorist message.)
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To: doug from upland
Check my family out
216 posted on 08/26/2005 9:13:44 AM PDT by bmwcyle (We broke Pink's code and found a terrorist message.)
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To: Swordmaker
JIM ROB - LOST IN NEW MEXICO
217 posted on 08/26/2005 9:19:21 AM PDT by doug from upland (The Hillary documentary is coming -- INDICTING HILLARY)
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To: doug from upland

That's my constant prayer, Doug. It was hard enough to live through once, but twice...


218 posted on 08/26/2005 10:12:56 AM PDT by Constitutions Grandchild
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To: Swordmaker

ping


219 posted on 08/26/2005 11:51:43 AM PDT by Mercat (God loves us where He finds us.)
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