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Blue Hill vigil honors Iraq war dead
Bangor Daily News (Maine) ^ | Saturday, November 12, 2005 | Unknown

Posted on 11/13/2005 4:24:24 AM PST by Grut

Summary: BLUE HILL - Margret Baldwin clenched a bundle of small white flags to her heart and closed her eyes. When it was her turn at the microphone, she read the names of 20 men and women who died in Iraq, one lost soldier for each flag she carried. As the...

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There may be an answer in here somewhere as to why the BDN hasn't covered the veteran's protest in Waterville at all (so far as I can tell).
1 posted on 11/13/2005 4:24:25 AM PST by Grut
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They did not cover it because they are traitorous scum with an agenda, not "journalists".


2 posted on 11/13/2005 4:34:01 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Looks like the Iraqi Terrorists are getting tired of committing Suicide-By-Marine-Corps,)
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Good grief, we're surrounded on all sides here in NH. Massachusetts may be our most sane neighbor.

I can't believe I just said that.

3 posted on 11/13/2005 4:43:24 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (I'm just sitting here on the Group W bench.)
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"I can't describe to you how I felt standing there on the flight deck and thinking, 'What are we doing?'" she said. "When I saw the cruise missile hit- I don't know how many people died that day - I knew that war has a cost,
a very, very high cost."

How you felt? I wonder how those felt kneeling in front of their executioners, hands tied behind their back, their heads soon to be cut off?

White flags suit this bunch perfectly, abject surrender. They are just too stupid to understand they would be the first group silenced by our enemies, heads rolling everywhere if we lose this war on Western Civilization.

And like was said before me, not a word of mention that this was an anti war protest and that real Veterans tried to remove the surrender flags so that our brave heroes would not be smeared by these fools.


4 posted on 11/13/2005 4:46:15 AM PST by armydawg1 (" America must win this war..." PVT Martin Treptow, KIA, WW1)
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...not a word of mention that this was an anti war protest and that real Veterans tried to remove the surrender flags so that our brave heroes would not be smeared by these fools.

The veterans' protest was in Waterville, which is fifty miles from Blue Hill. Apparently the troops got 'supported' in an organized manner in various spots.

5 posted on 11/13/2005 5:00:18 AM PST by Grut
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"They did not cover it because they are traitorous scum with an agenda, not "journalists"

The same reason why CNN first ran a story yesterday about the Santa Monica Arlington West "memorial" declaring that it was done by "Viet Nam" veterans and was not political. They interviewed one dad and an Iraqi war veteran but never told who really sponsored this memorial or how hurtful it is to other families of fallen heroes.

They put a few bits of truth in an article, selectively choosing to omit others and call it news. That used to be called an opinion editorial or an analysis....now they think they can call it a news story.


6 posted on 11/13/2005 5:04:05 AM PST by chgomac
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think they can call it a news story

Yet another reason, as if we needed any more, to do everything we can to destroy the Dinasour Media. What pure scum they are. How anyone of these slime can claim to be "objective" with a straight face is simply amazing.

7 posted on 11/13/2005 5:15:07 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Looks like the Iraqi Terrorists are getting tired of committing Suicide-By-Marine-Corps,)
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It's an interesting time to observe the media....Bernie Goldberg tried to explain in "Bias" that they are so liberal that they know not what they do.......but they do know that their ratings are suffering so they let a few objective stories trickle out.

I'm getting so cynical... a story is "framed" by identifying a participant as far-right or religious conservative but not as liberal activist or far left.


8 posted on 11/13/2005 5:29:06 AM PST by chgomac
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