Here's a bump to get people to slow down, read the thread, and come in person on Friday night.
Posted on 09/13/2005 8:37:44 PM PDT by BillF
As a lurker since the 2000 election, I'm not tuned into bumping yet. I'll try to get with the program.
I can understand your frustration with stay-at-home FReepers. I live 140 miles away, and think this is important enough to have made the round trip four times. Am trying to arrange things so I can be there for the big weekend of the 23-25th. I don't care if I have to sleep in my truck, I can't pass up a chance to meet JimRob and support the troops at the same time.
Coop, you gotta admit it's exciting to have people planning to be there from all over the country.
FReepers-- I know there's a bunch of you out there who live a lot closer than I do. Get out of your chairs and get to Walter Reed. You'll have a great time and feel better about yourself on the drive home, than you have in a long time.
If April and concretebob can fly in from halfway across the country, then you ought to be able to spend a few hours and a few gasbucks to drive in for such an important cause.
Oops, meant BOBTHENAILER and April
keeping it bumped...
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Next time she will. Very conservative along with the other attributes. As of right now, I'm hitting the road to Flint for my flight tomorrow. Wahoooooooo
Have a safe flight. Hope to see you there.
Amen to that!
See you tomorrow!
Here's a bump to get people to slow down, read the thread, and come in person on Friday night.
I wish I lived in D.C.
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See Coop, I'm getting the hang of this bump thing!
You're doing a fine job!
Hey, my home state! We're just a quick shot straight up I-95! Wouldn't next weekend be a great time to visit your nation's capital? :-)
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Gondring drove at least 4 hours one way a few months back. Gadsdenman has come 4 times, driving over 140 miles each way. Justanobody drives over a hundred miles one way, through some of the worst traffic on the East Coast, and has attended at least ten or twelve times.
All of them and others have gone "above and beyond" and no one should necessarily expect that you can duplicate them. However, if you are financially and otherwise able, we would be happy to have you come. If you wanted, you could come on the weekend of Sept 23 and join us for FR activities on Friday night, Saturday, Sunday, and possibly Monday per below very important threads from kristinn and Jim Robinson:
SADDLE UP FREEPERS! Support the Troops and Their Mission Weekend, Sept. 23-26 in D.C.
SupportTheTroopsWeekend.org ^ | Friday, September 9, 2005 | Kristinn
Posted on 09/09/2005 2:16:19 PM PDT by kristinn
SUPPORT THE TROOPS AND THEIR MISSION WEEKEND
September 23 - 26, 2005 Washington, D.C.
WWW.SUPPORTTHETROOPSWEEKEND.ORG
FOR ALL ACTIVITIES, PLEASE BRING AMERICAN AND SERVICE FLAGS AND SIGNS BEARING MESSAGES OF SUPPORT FOR AMERICA, OUR TROOPS AND THEIR MISSION FIGHTING THE WAR ON TERRORISM IN IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN AND ELSEWHERE
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 - TIME TBA
ARRIVAL IN WASHINGTON, D.C. OF MOVE AMERICA FORWARD'S “YOU DON’T SPEAK FOR ME, CINDY!” CROSS-COUNTRY CARAVAN.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 - 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
SUPPORT THE TROOPS RALLY OUTSIDE WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, 7200 GEORGIA AVENUE, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. ACROSS FROM THE MAIN GATE, ELDER ST. AND GEORGIA AVE.
Every Friday night for the past five months, members of FreeRepublic.com have held a patriotic gathering in support of our men and women recuperating at Walter Reed. While they believe that ordinarily, demonstrations are out of place at a hospital, they have done so because an antiwar group named Code Pink has been holding antiwar demonstrations at the main gate to Walter Reed on Friday evenings.
We believe Code Pink is trying to hurt the morale of our soldiers and their families, so we will be joining the members of FreeRepublic.com in their show of support for our troops and their loved ones.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 - 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
SUPPORT THE TROOPS AND THEIR MISSION RALLY BY DEFENDTHEWHITEHOUSE.ORG, RIGHTMARCH AND PROTEST WARRIOR, IN RESPONSE TO ANTIWAR RALLY ON THE ELLIPSE (LOCATION TBA).
This rally will place participants in close proximity to the antiwar protesters so that the antiwar rallies will not go unanswered by patriotic Americans. Plans for this day are still being formed. You may sign up for a mailing list for information updates on Saturday's events.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 - 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
PATRIOTIC COUNTER-DEMONSTRATION BY DEFENDTHEWHITEHOUSE.ORG, FREEREPUBLIC.COM AND PROTEST WARRIOR ALONG ANTIWAR PARADE ROUTE THROUGH FEDERAL TRIANGLE (EXACT LOCATION TBA.)
After the dueling rallies, we will be lining sections of the antiwar march route to show support for America, our troops and their mission fighting the war on terrorism. There will be police lines separating the two groups to ensure the peace.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 - Noon to 3 p.m.
OUR MAIN EVENT: RALLY TO HONOR MILITARY FAMILIES ON THE MALL AT 4TH STREET NW (NEAR THE AIR & SPACE MUSEUM) SPONSORED BY MOVE AMERICA FORWARD, RIGHTMARCH.COM, FREEREPUBLIC.COM, PROTEST WARRIOR AND MILITARY FAMILIES VOICE OF VICTORY
This rally is being held to honor military families, their loved ones serving in our armed forces and their mission fighting the war on terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world.
Military family members and those who support them are encouraged to attend to show the nation and the world that they stand firm in their resolve to win the war on terrorism.
Speakers will include Gold Star parents, family members of service men and women, veterans and Iraqi citizens. Current and former Members of Congress are being invited to speak.
The program for the rally will be regularly updated.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 - All day
MILITARY FAMILY MEMBERS WILL MEET WITH SENATORS, CONGRESSMEN AND THEIR AIDES TO INFORM THEM OF THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE MISSION OF THEIR LOVED ONES IN IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN AND AROUND THE WORLD FIGHTING THE WAR ON TERRORISM
UPDATES TO THE SCHEDULE WILL BE POSTED TO THIS THREAD.
Free Republic is honored to be working with Move America Forward, RightMarch.com, Protest Warrior, DefendtheWhiteHouse.org and Military Families Voice of Victory in organizing this long weekend of actions in support of our troops and their families.
If you can only make it to D.C. one day, please make it for the rally to honor military families on the 25th. However, all are encouraged to spend the whole four day weekend with us.
If you know any veterans or military families who've been fired up about how the left is trying to undermine the war effort, please pass along this announcement to them.
As always, we expect folks to obey the law and not do or say anything that will reflect badly on our troops or their families.
If you can't attend and would like to support this effort, please direct contributions to the main co-sponsors:
FreeRepublic.com Please type Support Troops Weekend in comments box.
DefendTheWhiteHouse.org via PayPal
JimRob will be traveling across the country to attend the Support the Troops and Their Mission Weekend. He's looking forward to meeting a whole lot of Freepers when he gets to D.C.
CLICK HERE FOR THE REST OF THAT THREAD.
Support the Troops and Their Mission Weekend!! (Sept 23rd thru 26th)
09/14/2005 | Jim Robinson
Posted on 09/14/2005 2:36:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
The left is massing for their huge anti-war protest in Washington, DC, on September the 24th. This isn't about Cindy Sheehan. Led by the communist supported International A.N.S.W.E.R. group, the left believes this one massive protest will deliver a Vietnam style knockout blow to our president and the war effort.
This is their big "Vietnam war" protest of the current generation. Do not allow this group of America-hating hippies and misfits win the day for the terrorists. Do not allow them to destroy public support for the war as they did in the 60's. Do not allow them to demoralize our troops with their lies and anti-America communist propaganda!!
Over three thousand of us traveled to Crawford Texas last month and knocked the stuffings out of the Cindy Sheehan anti-war protest. Now I'm hoping we can do the same this time around. We need ten to twenty thousand freedom loving patriots to stand up for our troops and for America and tell these misguided leftists to go home!! We did not allow Cindy Sheehan to speak for us in Crawford and I'll be damned if we're gonna allow the communists to speak for us in Washington, DC!!
Do not allow this to become another Vietnam style defeat for America!! If you love your freedom, if you think as we do that defeating terrorism is a MUST DO and CAN DO task to preserve and defend our American way of life, and if you believe that we must stand up for America and our troops then please support our counterprotest efforts in Washington, DC!!
If you possibly can, please be there!! If you can't be there, then please support us with your posts, your letters to the editors and to your representatives and with your financial contributions.
Listed below are examples of some of the anti-America slogans found on A.N.S.W.E.R.'s call to action page for their protest:
The demands of the demonstration
While we organize around the demand for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal [surrender] of the U.S. from Iraq, it is essential that the movement show the connection between the war in Iraq and all the other fronts of the U.S. government's war for Empire, including the struggle of working and poor people in the United States. The demands for the demonstration include:
From Iraq to New Orleans, Fund People's Needs - Not the War Machine
Stop the War in Iraq
End Colonial Occupation from Iraq to Palestine to Haiti
Support the Palestinian People’s Right of Return
Stop the Threats Against Venezuela, Cuba, Iran & North Korea
U.S. out of the Philippines U.S. out of Puerto Rico
Bring all the troops home now
Stop the Racist, anti-Immigrant and anti-Labor Offensive at Home, Defend Civil Rights
Military Recruiters out of our schools & communities
If the above doesn't tick you off, I don't know what will.
Do not allow the left to speak for you!!
Sheila, Chris, Syncro and I will be there. Hope to see you there too!!
May God bless and protect our troops.
May God continue to bless America!!
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It's a shame we have to defend wounded soldiers recovering at Walter Reed. Pinkos need to stop protesting our heroes outside a military hospital. They know they're wrong and so they sugarcoat their messages. The troops know them for what they are.
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