Here's Eaker, Syncro, JimRob & Shiela:
Posted on 08/27/2005 10:02:40 AM PDT by TXBubba
Just talked to Basil on site in Crawford, Texas. Currently there are about 100 folks there helping to set up. They have not received word about the caravan arrival in Waco yet. JimRob is riding with the caravan. She thinks it might get to Crawford around 1:00 p.m.
Basil says the stage is set up, the sound system is excellent and they have hung the most beautiful banners overnighted by W04Man on the stage. A big thanks for the banners, they are much appreciated!
Someone arrived early and hung yellow ribbons everywhere.
They have an American flag that is about 50 feet by 40 feet. Children of military personnel serving in the Middle East have written notes to their parents on the stripes of this flag. A very touching thing to behold.
The HOT Chapter booth is being unloaded right now. The will sell buttons made by Angelwood to help off set costs.
Someone rented the Community Center for our use so there is access to AC. However, they also have 10 tents set up. And there is a Moonwalk for the kiddos.
To top everything else there is BBQ on the grill! Basil is the official taster and says it is great!
That is all the news I have at the moment. It is hard to get a cell phone connection to Crawford but when I hear more I will try to update everyone.
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/ribbons/ribbons.html
During the last decade, no single form of expression documented in the Archive of Folk Culture has stimulated more letters, more phone calls, more in-person inquiries than the yellow ribbon. The questions began in 1981 when the Library of Congress received a blizzard of inquiries, particularly from the news media, about the history of yellow ribbons then being displayed everywhere in America in support of Americans being held hostage in Iran. The basic question that reporters had in mind was how the symbol came into being. Many callers had ideas of their own on the subject; some had interviewed the authors of relevant popular songs; others had spoken to wives of hostages in Iran in 1980-81. Still others had talked to historians of the Civil War.
Well we will pound the pictures into the media's skulls when we get them.
Being in a war is not "doing time".
as a small army of his supporters......
I noticed that the media in its description keeps saying small. Are they trying to convey that not many turned out? By comparison there were more Bush supporters than supporters at Camp Casey. Wonder how they described them?
Doug--just got home from work and wanted to catch up on the happenings. That song! You've outdone yourself on that one! Good goin'!
We should all work at getting the word out to our military.
For anyone sending care packages to someone in the military, why not print out this thread (maybe just part of it) and include it in your package.
I think I will print some of the thread after pictures are posted.
Let's keep the pressure on Fox not so Fair and Balanced News.
I'm working on the photos. I just took a break to follow the rally thread and grab some lunch. I took ~200 photos, so I have to cull and crop and then upload...
Here's Eaker, Syncro, JimRob & Shiela:
HA HA HA, he should sent Jimmah some rusty nails and a bent hammer.
When I heard that Habitat wanted to move out of Americus, to a larger city
I laughed at the thought of Jimmah building a new office with volunteers. You know,
with all of the code enforcement officers in big cities looking over shoulders.
I was just offering excuses....
Our servicemen and women are not being held hostage.
The Kalpoe brothers were re-arrested in Aruba!! THIS IS HUGH!
Amity
“we had much better info than any newz organization and MUCH faster.”
No doubt about that.
That was the point I was trying to make to the guy that posted: “Strange to watch the news unfold here on FR….”
LOL !
Now ya know how I feel when that 'thing' just comes on me from nowhere !
(thought i was gonna end up in DC jail for awhile that last time mr. congeniality came to see y'all ;-)
I really miss John Wayne. We sure could use him now. Has anybody else noticed how most of the male leading men are baby faced, little boy types.
LOL. Cute.
I had hoped to leave the humidity back in Houston.
Did I say that? all I stated was the fact that the first appearance of the yellow ribbons was during the hostage crisis.
Where are the anti-war protestors? Our friends called to say they're no where to be found.
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