Post pics,news,speeches on the Gathering of Eagles - These Colors Don't Run, Pro Troop Rally
Posted on 03/17/2007 9:12:15 AM PDT by mdittmar
More thank yous to more of you who were there and reported back to us!! Thank you, thank you.
Please realize how blessed you were to be there, how proud we are of you, and DURN! We wanted to be there, too!!
Now, there are probably a dozen more threads on this which I need to find.... LOL.
I'll be waiting!
Saw both her and her sign. We need more backup during the next SF counterprotest. I don't think Custer was as outnumbered as we were. At the most, there were sixty people who were supporting the war and the troops.
As it was, our small marching column (Around 15 - 20 tops) had more American flags than most of the march combined, if not the entire march. More enemy flags up than anything else.
My sign, that said "The Geneva Convention Does Not Apply To Terrorists" and "What about Darfur" was a particular hit. I found it telling that not a single speaker mentioned the atrocity and genocide in Darfur, but was quick to insult the United States. "Supporting the Troops but not the War" my well-padded posterior, not when one of the speakers called US Troops rapists.
Ah, well. Can't take it too personally.
Thanks for the ping!
I also forgot to say, that it was the Gathering of Eagles that kept me, for one there. Knowing of the stand our veterans made was enough to inspire me to both go and stay in the face of liberal oppression.
Thank you, all of you who went. You are true sons and daughters of the United States.
NOTHING could have prepared me for what filled my eyes and my heart.
I never was so full of gratitude, never.
There is so much racing through my head and my heart...then it goes to slow motion, and back again.
I would be the same way. Keep on overflowing, freema, it's good for you.
Btw, are you in some of Race Bannon's photos, particularly the one of the group in front of the Iwo Jima memorial?
I would like to see him post that one.
I had lunch with Del, his friend Joe Kelly (we needed an Irishman), Mike Benge (ex POW), Scott Swett (Freeper par excellance and son of Vietnam veteran), and my daughter.
Del did a great job and Baily told me that he estimated that we had from 5-8,000 at the Gathering of Eagles, spread out across the Washington Mall area. You should have seen the American flags flying all over the place.
What a great "Band of Brothers".
Max Friedman, Vietnam correspondent, 1970
I never saw Race : (
USMCPOP and I visited at the cemetary. I went to the memorial from there, and was early.
I was born of the Corps, I married the Corps and I birthed the Corps. I had my moment at the monument. The monument was to be all I could hold for the day. That was their time, and the sight of them would have done me in.
They would have all floated away and it would have been my fault ; )
;^)
Anti-war protesters gather at the Pentagon on Saturday. At two points, protesters encountered counter-demonstrators.
Thousands protest Iraq war at Pentagon
By David D. Kirkpatrick and Sarah Abruzzese
The New York Times
WASHINGTON — Thousands of protesters demanding an end to the war in Iraq marched to the Pentagon on Saturday to mark the fourth anniversary of the American invasion and the 40th anniversary of the massive 1967 protest against the Vietnam War.
Other demonstrations to mark the war's anniversary were held elsewhere in the country and around the world.
On Friday night, a coalition of liberal Christian groups, including Sojourners/Call to Renewal, led several thousand marchers in a procession from the National Cathedral. More than 200 demonstrators were arrested while praying in front of the White House, according to the Washington police.
The organizers of Saturday's march — led by a group called the ANSWER Coalition, for Act Now to Stop War and End Racism — appeared to set their sights on a range of goals, from the impeachment of President Bush to the end of the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
In a speech before the march, Cindy Sheehan, the mother who made headlines camping outside Bush's Texas ranch after her son was killed in Iraq, called the president and his military advisers "war criminals."
As they gathered for the march, the protesters were confronted by several hundred counter-demonstrators. Many were veterans in biker jackets who said they had come to protect the nearby Vietnam Memorial from potential defacement, citing rumors that had circulated among veterans groups.
Crossing the bridge toward the Pentagon, the marchers met another group of about 50 counter-demonstrators by the Arlington Cemetery. One member of the opposing group held a sign that said, "Go to hell, traitors. You dishonor our dead on hallowed ground."
Police on horseback and foot separated the two groups of demonstrators, but war protester Susanne Shine of Boone, N.C., found herself in a crowd of counter-demonstrators, and came out in tears, with her sign in shreds.
"They ripped up my peace sign," she said after police escorted her, her husband and two adult daughters from the group.
Alan Rainey, who said he was a publisher from Indiana, said the last protest he attended was in 1973, after he had returned from military duty in Vietnam.
On Saturday, he carried a sign with a St. Patrick's Day theme that said, "Help drive the snakes out of the White House," depicting Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney as snakes.
Zohrea Whitaker said she came from Sacramento, Calif., for the protest.
"I have a son serving over there and I want him home," she said. Five people were arrested after the demonstration when they walked onto a bridge that had been closed off. They were cited and released.
In Sacramento, nearly 200 veterans and parents of troops gathered on the steps of the state Capitol to rally in support of U.S. troops in Iraq. Police in Los Angeles said 5,000 to 6,000 protesters turned out for an anti-war rally there. Other demonstrations were planned for or held in Austin, Texas, San Francisco, San Diego and Hartford, Conn., where more than 1,000 rallied at the Old State House.
Protests were also staged or planned in Australia, Britain and Canada. Tens of thousands marched in Madrid as Spaniards called not only for the U.S. to get out of Iraq but to close the prison for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Smaller protests were staged in Greece and Turkey. __________________________________________________________________________
"Several hundred counter-demonstrators"?
More MSM leftist bias showing.
Great pix! Sorry that we couldn't be with y'all this time. Don't need to say it, but it bears reapeating anyway. The stuff you all did this weekend is what keeps our country strong!
Eagles up!
BUMP!
The story today is reduced to showing other cities and ignoring DC.
Now I wish that I'd taken my camera. I got a chuckle at how much free advertising Mercedes-Benz was getting from the moonbat side. Maybe they'll send a cease-and-desist letter to Moveon.org. :-)
I never was so full of gratitude, never.
After FReeping with the DC Chapter, I never thought I would see a crowd that big. We have a hard time getting people out locally.
This experience was different. NOW was the time to be downtown! I was glad to finally meet you in person in such a sea of faces. The support warmed our hearts as well. We come together with a common purpose, and leave better "on line" FRiends!
The only colors the mangled minds of the LSM [lame stream media]like are Pink and Red.
JVB,
Have a look
http://marklevinfan.com/PhotoAlbum/thumbnails.php?album=51&page=5
Funny, the sign was 2 queen size bedsheets in size. It took 6 of us to hold it up in the 20-30 mph wind.
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