[goresalooza]

Bingo! I don't think a hospital and the grounds around it are ANY place for ANY kind of protest, IMO. I work as an RN...those patients need all the peace and quiet and rest they can get and it's disturbing hearing megaphones and screaming, singing and ranting. I'm TOTALLY AGAINST ANY PROTESTS on hospital grounds. I'm absolutely SHOCKED that the hospital commander (likely some Army BG admin weenie) would permit protests that would distract from patients' well-being.

If the noise is in earshot of any patient, it's very very bad. There are other patients there who aren't combat casualties and they don't like the noise, either. It also bothers the staff. I'm really POed that the cops allowed anyone near that hospital. Leave the troops to heal, please! Send them cards and well wishes, they will appreciate that a helluva lot more than ranting and loud noise.

[Spiff]

The protests are on the sidewalk outside the front gate of the hospital. They are not held on hospital grounds but on the public - and very noisy - street out front. It is highly doubtful that the patients can hear anything as no amplification is used.

The FReepers will go away as soon as the marxist al-qaeda symps cease their disgusting protest.

As for the patients and their families, they support the FReepers' presence outside the gate, standing up to the anti-America scumbags, once a week from 6:30 to 9:00pm. The only people who have expressed any objection have been the seditionist pukes across the street who started this in the first place.

[bmwcyle]

they will appreciate that a helluva lot more than ranting and loud noise.

Why don't you show up and talk with the people yourself. Then you will know how glad they are that we are there. It is not ranting. It is the truth and Code Pink can't handle the truth.

[Sisku Hanne]

As we stand at the intersection you can watch the people in cars reading all the banners. We get scores of smiles, honks, waves and thumbs-ups (much to the dismay of the Pinkos). Last week an attractive African-American woman pulled up to the intersection. A huge smile spread over her face as she read some of our signs and realized why we were there. She rolled her window down and called out "Thank you! God Bless you! My son is in Iraq".

Seeing how happy that lovely lady was to have her son's committment honored makes every minute of cold & hours of commute worth it.

Some of those who stand with us are medical professionals themselves. We know directly from those troops that our support is good medicine. Soldiers can see us- they look for us- but they cannot hear us.
We would never cause them distress or interfere in their healing process, and you would know this if you ever came to participate firsthand.

[freema]

I so appreciate what FReepers are doing.

I've said it before, and I'll say it for the millionth time:

If I EVER GOD FORBID FIND MYSELF INSIDE THOSE WALLS I don't want to look out and find Code Pink. Without those dear, dear FREEPERS giving them hell... I'd be forced to do it myself.

[tgslTakoma]

Code PinkOs are closest to the hospital, but that is probably 1,000 feet from the building, and on a DC puclic sidewalk - outside the WRAMC property. We are 60 feet further away from the hospital, across six lanes of busy road. Even our loudest person's voice couldn't carry that far, with all the other city noises around.

Code Pink does defy the law by attaching their signs and banners to the WRAMC fence.

And it's not only noise that affects wounded soldiers and their families. The messages on the Code PinkO signs are designed to cause doubt and even despair - that the US doesn't care about the wounded, doesn't help the vets, they're wounded because of government lies, etc.

The people who stand outside the gates of WRAMC have no consciences and bad intent, WRT their "peace protest." When Code PinkO and comrades leave WRAMC and allow our soldiers to heal unmolested, we'll stop yelling at them (at WRAMC anyway).