It is beautiful. Sooooo beautiful. It is a whole 3 more minutes of fame.
Posted on 11/25/2005 5:08:23 PM PST by digger48
Protestors Unveil Monument Honoring Sheehan By ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer 27 minutes ago
CRAWFORD, Texas - Anti-war demonstrators, back in Crawford to protest during President Bush's holiday vacation, unveiled a stone monument Friday with the words "Sheehan's Stand" in honor of the woman who inspired their efforts.
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Cindy Sheehan, who staged a 26-day protest outside Bush's ranch in August, cried when she saw the 2-foot-high sandstone marker.
On the other side of the rectangular slab is the word "Why!" and names of more than two dozen soldiers whose families were part of the vigil. The name of Sheehan's 24-year-old son, Casey, is among them.
"Nobody knew what was going to happen, and we made up Camp Casey as we went along, and it grew and grew and grew," said Sheehan, of Berkeley, Calif. "We're here to say that the killing has to stop, that we're not going to justify any more killing on our losses."
The artist who carved the 1,200-pound monument, Ron Teska of Wind Ridge, Pa., drove to Crawford the last week of the protest with the stone slab in the back of his pickup. He spent about 45 hours carving it.
The marker was placed at the Crawford Peace House, which opened downtown a month after the war began in March 2003. An anti-war rally was planned for Saturday and an interfaith service Sunday.
Several Bush supporters also gathered in Crawford on Friday with a sign reading: "The price of freedom is not free." Hundreds were expected to attend a pro-Bush rally Saturday.
"I disagree with her claims that the president is a murderer and a liar," said James Vergauwen of Windthorst. "When you're at war, you need to be at war as a whole country and not as a divided country."
Ya think they'd honor her son. But nooooooo.
Is her monument on the left or right of Ho Chi Minh's? What a bunch of anti American losers.
Roast a Cow on the Toast to a Sow
They sell hardened moose$hit in Maine used for various purposes, that would have been a more appropriate material.
We have no choice but to tolerate it. I fumed all day yesterday and today over the fact our local law enforcement people had to give up their holiday with their families so Cindy can have yet another self involved moment in the spotlight. Off to find my spray paint collection. Anybody want to join me?
Hunters in Crawford are rejoycing at the unveiling of the SinDee Sheep-pan Shoting from the Truck sighting registration target. Al's Ammo is having a 4 x 4 sale (buy four get for more) on all shot-gun shell boxes and a 3 OH 8 sale (3 free boxes of for every 8 you buy) on all rifle ammo. Sheriff Round Lead does warn locals that target practice will not start until he clears out the trash preventing a clear registration shot.
"(BM for short)"
- Is BM synonomous with Bowel Movement?
Caught up in the "thrill of the post"
It is beautiful. Sooooo beautiful. It is a whole 3 more minutes of fame.
Half a stick of TNT hung on each side, earmuff charge, puff all dust.
Too bad it didn't hit her in the eye.
True enough. Sloppy work and lazy too. They didn't even get the date formatted correctly.
Pray for W anf Our Freedom Fighters
The thing is downright ugly. The proportions are all off and what is that thing in the middle?
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