Saturday, August 27, 2005
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'You Don't Speak For Me, Cindy' Campaign
Deborah Mathews reporting for The Iconoclast4:20 p.m.
At and around the Yellow Rose, people are milling around watching the goings-on. Right now, there are several hundred there. Some boys about high school age walking in the direction of Pirate Field just yelled, "Cindy, the fucking whore, get out."
It appears there are a lot of spectators around, simply watching history in the making.
A man a block from the Yellow Rose carrying a white cross, yelled out to me, "Be sure you send this to your friends in Iraq." The sign he carried said "Real America won't wimp out." When asked, "What? The photo?" and he said "Yeah, I want them to see it."
Now here's a U-haul truck beside the road that says, "A mother's loss, a nation's pain."
The railroad crossing bars have been going off, up and then down, up and then down, but no train.
People are pulling on a rope that has been tied to the gong on the Liberty bell at the Yellow Rose. This is happening frequently.
This is certainly not what I expected, not this level of passion and intensity on both sides.
I'm going to post a picture in a little bit but I let my grandson ring that bell. Over and over but he had to wait his turn with grown men. It warmed my heart knowing those across the street gritting their teeth with each freedom clang. I do apologize to the VN vet in the electric wheel chair that showed him how the controls worked though. I could have told him that my GS would have to try it, himself . Anyway he was telling me how horrible he and other vets were treated when he came back. Hippies beware.This is not going to happen with our military in Iraq.