Bravo Zulu!!!
Posted on 03/14/2008 8:34:14 PM PDT by kristinn
The speakers had just finished lamenting recent acts of vandalism at military recruiting centers and had opened the floor to questions at the National Press Club when peace activist Tighe Barry jumped up, took off his shirt and revealed the pink military tunic he was wearing underneath.
"This is what I think of the Marine Corps!" he yelled. "The Marine Corps needs to be the peace corps!"
Incensed, Kevin L. Martin rushed to the microphone. "Let me tell you something, dammit!" he hollered. "I'm a Navy veteran of seven years, and . . . you are a joke, sir! Please step the hell out of the building!"
The face-off yesterday between the pro-troops group and the antiwar group Code Pink was a preview of a series of demonstrations and counter-demonstrations that are scheduled in and around Washington over the next few days.
Groups supporting the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, including Move America Forward, a Gathering of Eagles, and Free Republic, plan a rally at 11 a.m. today at the Washington Monument, followed by a 1 p.m. march along Constitution Avenue.
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Yesterday's preview began with the news conference arranged by Sacramento-based Move America Forward to call attention to vandalism at military recruiting offices across the country, including the detonation of a small bomb last week at a recruiting station in Manhattan.
The group issued a document, titled "the Sedition Report," which it said detailed acts of vandalism going back several years. The report included an incident last month in the 1300 block of L Street NW in which the lobby of the Armed Forces Recruiting Center was trashed and slogans were chalked on the outside walls.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Amen
Bravo Zulu!!!
Good morning, MountainFlower
Thanks for the PING
Amen to your prayer.
And Lord God we thank you for everything You did in answer to our prayers yesterday. We thank you for everyone You brought. Certainly it was exactly who You needed to accomplish Your purposes. We thank You for all who stood at the college and all who came to Walter Reed last night to honor our troops and their families. We thank you for the press conference - for how the opposition once again revealed that they are NOT about the “peace” they claim, and for Trueblackman who stood up in righteous indignation for Debbie Johns and all our troops who wear or who have worn the uniform.
Continue to be with all today who stand up for our troops. Keep Your angels around them. Give them all safe passage. If there are more in the area You desire to be there - get them off their couches and into the city. You know You will orchestrate today EXACTLY as You intend in response to our prayers in order to accomplish Your purposes. Your purposes and Your ways are perfect. We place our trust in You. Thank You Lord for each and every person marching today. Bless them and their families in a special way. And thank You for Your Presence, strategy and power in what You have purposed today through these valiant patriots. In Jesus’ name, Amen
fyi, this prayer will also be posted on the thread dedicated to this purpose so that more may find it and join in prayer.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1978670/posts
(Prayer will continue from many of us throughout the day)
God bless America. God bless our troops. God bless those who support them.
Amen.
That’s the truth. Whenever a protester or a panhandler claims to be a veteran, be skeptical.
You are a true man...and you're my new hero!
Thanks for being you!
Smooch! 
God Bless everyone who has stood on the front lines or worked behind the sceen defending and supporting our troops.
God Bless our Troops!
PING
Thank you for your prayer eaglesnest1. Those of us who can’t be there today are praying here at home.
God Bless all those who are there for us today. And all those who paid the ultimate price for our freedom who can only be there in spirit. We will never forget you.
Great to see Trueblackman taking on these losers. Please keep those photos coming!
Thank you both and everyone else that are there!
Thanks for the ping. GO FREEPERS! Get some!
Thanks for your devotion to our nation’s freedom fighters.
Thanks for the superb pictures at the National Press Club as you and my friends Melanie, Debbie Lee, and Larry Bailey, along with Catherine Moy and the rest of the MAF gang stood (again) against the ill-informed and detestable Code Pink crowd and their anti-American cohorts.
God Bless you Kevin.
Thousands join anti-war protests.
Thousands of people have joined demonstrations in London and Glasgow, to mark the fifth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq. (a few pictures included)
Does anyone know if London has a national pro-troop org similar to Move America Forward? - just wondering...
Code Pinkos are getting even freakier.
Yeah main male Code pinko wore pink what kind of man wear PINK LOL!
Aw, isn’t that cute!
Thank you for standing up to these wretches, Kevin.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Whoa whoa whoa... did they really get a tank, and paint it pink?
[Mr] T
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