Posted on 09/20/2005 6:03:11 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
Save the Walter Reed Vigil
Appeal to Our Vets and Active Duty Soldiers Inside Walter Reed
The Walter Reed Vigil is a very discreet, dignified project taking place for two hours each Friday evening between 7 and 9 pm. We want those who have paid a terrific price for their country to be kept close to our hearts and minds. We don't call for you to be honored with parades and flags; others will do that. We are calling on the country to honor its veterans, active duty, reserves, and National Guard, with full benefits, commitment to long-term health care, and an economy that will provide good jobs, hopefully union jobs.
We understand from talking to some of those inside Walter Reed and other soldiers, the importance of the bonds you have with the comrades still in the field. You worry about them; you pray for them. So do we-that is why we want them home again. Whether you agree with that solution for the situation we are in-or not-we hope you can come to trust our sincerity. We try to prove it with the consistency of our little vigil outside the main gate of Walter Reed. You proved your commitment to your brothers and sisters in arms and to your country. We stand by the main gate each Friday evening for just those two hours as a commitment to you, that we will not forget you, and we don't want the rest of the country forgetting you either.
NOW TODAY, there are some who are so unsure of their own position that they feel they cannot tolerate even our small, short, weekly vigil. These people wave the American flag but they have lost the essence of what it means. They say God Bless The Troops but they don't understand what it is that you and your comrades fought for, are fighting for. Their goal is to silence us, and what will they do then?
HOW DID it come to this? That a small, humble vigil of ten people or so, should turn into such a storm? What are we saying that gets them so angry? Support Our Troops. Full Benefits for Our Vets. Bring the Troops Home.
PLEASE HELP US. If you believe we have a right to our simple vigil, if you can trust us not to ever do any of our veterans harm, please join us some time between 7 and 9 pm any Friday evening. Show the world that you don't believe in the lies told about us, that you believe in our right to have our vigil for our soldiers. Some of us are mothers of soldiers. Some are veterans. Some of us are simply citizens who want to do a little thing for people who have done so much for them.
Thank you.
Go Freepers, God Bless you, wisah I could teleport myself there from Texas.
I have near and dear ones in Iraq and Code Pink burns me like I can't tell you.
My daughter babysits.
bump
major league clymers
We'll say hello for you.
Thank you!
tgsl, you and your group of hearty freepers are doing an excellent job, and make my heart swell.
Keep it up! My hope is that I will get to once more see you guys in action before long.
Doctor Raoul, you must be the world's foremost authority on Code Pink by now. We appreciate your sharing all you have learned with us. I'd love to see you and Medea debate. Do you think you could arrange that? LOL!
We are hoping for a tag team match.
bttt
Oh, I dunno, how 'bout your sign that says, "Maimed for a lie?" That pretty much does it for me.
My faithful sidekick and I are very much looking forward to standing against the pink pukes on Fri night.
Come join us!
Lies, lies and more lies -- Code Pink wants everyone to FEEL sorry for them and come help pad their numbers against those mean old FReepers.
Got to laugh. They say they've toned down the counter protesters -- when just the opposite has occurred with their new Quiet Zone, sing-a-longs, candlelight vigil and sneak attacks going door-to-door and asking the neighbors to call the cops on us.
It must have really hurt to have to retire the "Maimed for a Lie" sign that used to be prominently displayed every week.
I'd love to see that. It would open like "Wild Kingdom", with the Ranger Rover driving along side Medea as she runs away. A Ranger working for the Safari Park (Commies are almost extinct in the US) would hit her with the dart gun. Drugged, she'd slow and stagger. The "indiginous workers" would quickly guide her into a crate and close the door.
That's all it would take to get her to a debate.
Chutzpah, thou name is Code Pink.
tgslTakoma, I think you're right on target; the Pinkos have been exposed for who they are, and now now they're spinning like tops.
Come on out this Friday, folks, if you live anywhere near the WDC area. I can tell you that the effort is worth is just to see the appreciative looks on the faces of the troops in the bus.
That letter is such a load of ****! (choose your own profanity)
I am really angry about their attempt to change image. They are trying, just because the press put some light on them!
I think I will go back and look at the signs I saw several weeks ago. I wonder if my blood pressure will take it?
I think I remember OSAMA BUSH??
Would it sound like this? "RANT RANT WHINE WHINE LIE SNIFF BLAME SCREAM RANT CURSE WHINE WHINE CURSE LIE"
Such lies!
Nice how they call Freepers Brown shirts, huh? So typical.
"Rolling Thunder thugs," that you seem to hate so much, are VETERANS!!"
Why can't folks google and inform themselves first!
I've known about rolling thunder for years! And I'm not a harley rider.
Similar to other naysayers who wrote to me privately, too.
The one that ticked me off the most - supposedly a lawyer - an educated type, right? He did not have a clue who or what a Hmong was. That's our lawyers out there today.
Aarrgh!
By the way, close to the end the big "family" bus pulled in--the whackos made a big display to "greet" them but you could see through the large windows that the people inside were not happy. However, we have not seen in a while now the bus that takes the patients out to dinner.Earth to Bruce....Come in Bruce....you've changed YOUR schedule. You start and end an hour earlier than before. That's why you missed the bus, YOU weren't there.
Typical self absorbed liberal. If he didn't see the bus, the bus must NOT exist.
And Pookie, what you saw were people unhappy with what they saw. Those were the people on YOUR SIDE of the bus looking out at "Code PINKO".
And spinning furiously in their "weekly reports" which, curiously, have website identifiers in sequential numbers. They posted them all in one fell swoop, sometime in the past 48 or so hours.
They are desperate.
If their motives weren't so despicable, the reports would be humorous.
I noticed with each subsequent report of theirs, the need for extra layers of tin foil on their thinking caps grows exponentially.
On their report of the week that we had nearly a hundred on our side, the goofball writer says that we ran into the street and surrounded the Fran O'Brien's bus, and the police did nothing to protect the bus from us.
What is the stuff they're smoking?
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