Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: jonrick46

No I don't, but will try and find the thread I found info on..According to this person that lived in the town the Witch in the ditch lived in the witches husband raised the kid..Maybe I read it on another site..


179 posted on 09/27/2005 4:29:07 AM PDT by Beth528
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 173 | View Replies ]


To: All

This will make you smile ...

Ponder this

This past weekend, tens of thousands of protesters against the war in Iraq -- some chanting that President Bush was a liar, a criminal and a killer -- marched through the streets of Washington past the White House.

Talk about raining on their parade.

Marching 50 yards ahead of the demonstrators -- holding up a sign that said "Freedom is Not Free" -- was Ryan Ponder, 25, a former sergeant in the 4th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army who until last year was fighting in Iraq.

"At one point, the anti-war protesters got so upset that he was marching ahead of them -- and was the first person that onlookers saw -- that they stopped the whole 150,000-person march so that he would get farther ahead of them," said one onlooker, a Capitol Hill staffer who asked not to be identified.

"But he stopped, too," he added. "He truly is like the man who stood in front of the tanks in [China's] Tiananmen Square in 1989, unafraid to stare down a much more powerful force."

We reached Mr. Ponder yesterday at the Capitol Hill office of Rep. Chris Cannon, Utah Republican, where he is an intern hoping to climb the ladder.

Mr. Ponder said he was proud to have marched, calling it his "patriotic duty."

Asked whether he had any close calls with a far deadlier enemy -- the Islamic insurgents in Iraq -- he said: "Of course I did. That's what happened when you're fighting a war."

http://insider.washingtontimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050927-122618-6199r


180 posted on 09/27/2005 4:33:16 AM PDT by sono
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 179 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson