Walter Reed FReep - 165, June 13, 2008 Flag Day and US Army Birthday Weekend

June 17, 2008 | Kburi

[kburi]

JUNE 13, FLAG DAY AND US ARMY BIRTHDAY WEEKEND

The Friday evening, before Flag Day and the United States Army’s 233rd Birthday, saw our enthusiasm high with a continuous stream of honks and waves from passing cars.

No rain ( a change from the recurring Friday night showers this past spring), but a very warm and pleasant night with cooling breezes near dusk, and good camaraderie among the twenty-three FReepers and visitors..

We carried plenty of flags and signs announcing the 233rd Birthday of the United States Army.

The moonbats were restless as June approaches its full moon and a code pinko truck slowly passed us and faded from sight, possibly due to our loud presence.

Most drivers show support with honks, waves and thumbs up. The few that express negative comments are met with loud positive comments by us.

The Big Bus arrived full of soldiers and families, slowed and stopped briefly, before turning into Walter Reed. We received many waves from the soldiers to our chants of USA, USA!

Tonight’s pictures are by Plea Deal.

HAPPY 233rd BIRTHDAY – US ARMY!

FRIDAY EVENING VISITORS:

As usual, some of our visitors were visiting for the first time and several were repeaters who drop by when they are in DC. All are welcome and we enjoy meeting everyone.

Two first time visitors had just finished a visit with a wounded (in Iraq) soldier. They were his aunt from Louisiana and his friend from Houston. We spent some time talking with them about the soldier and his injuries. Their physical presence in DC is important to him and we will include him in our prayers. Our talking to them seemed to reassure them that many Americans greatly care about and support our soldiers.

Bruce and Chris from Indiana joined us as they always do when they are in DC.

Aliesha brought three college interns: Jessica from Ohio, Lauren from Missouri and Tony from Texas. These three are active on their college campuses and they are representative of younger Americans who really care about this country. It is good to have them with us.

Katrina was a first timer who has seen us on previous Friday nights and stopped to find out who we were. BufordP explained our mission and she said she would join us in the future.

HONOR ROLL –JUNE 13th

VictoryNY, VAFlagwaver, Mr Trooprally, Mrs Trooprally, Tom the Redhunter, Sensei Ern, Satin_Patriot, RonGKirby, PleaDeal, Lurker Bill, , Kburi, Fraxinus, Cindy_True_Supporter, BufordP,

AND VISITORS –JUNE 13th

Aliesha, Katrina, Chris, Bruce, Tony, Jessica, Lauren, an aunt and friend of a wounded soldier.

GIVE VICTORY A CHANCE (RonGKirby)

Plea Deal, Tom the RedHunter and Fraxinus

Mrs Trooprally and Lurker Bill

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Sensei Ern, MOAB and Flags

Aliesha and VAFlagWaver

MOONBATTY!

Code pinko drive-by

Never LEFT the 60’s

MoonBat Patrol (Just in case)

VISITORS:

Chris and Bruce

Katrina and BufordP

Cindy_True_Supporter and visitor

Trooprally and Sensei Ern sharing a story with a soldier

The Intern Lineup (Thanks for coming)

RonGKirby and Lurker Bill

BUS RETURNING:

Bus Coming up Georgia Ave, Inside Lights On

Bus Turning into WR, Past Our Welcome

WALTER REED NOTES

If you can't get to D.C. to join us but would like to do something for the wounded, you can find a wealth of ideas by FReepmailing Tom the Redhunter, Cindy_True_Supporter, VAFlagwaver, or PleaDeal.

Please also FReepmail them or any of us if you would like to join us at Walter Reed and would like additional information about parking, directions, what to bring, etc.

Come join us every Friday night between the hours of 6:30pm to approx 9:30pm.

* Thank you to BufordP for maintaining the BIG LIST of all Walter Reed FReeps.

* Thank you to all FReepers who transport and store our many signs and banners every week.

* Tom the Redhunter blogs at The Redhunter

* Plea Deal blogs at Sempter Gratis

[kburi]

PING

[Landry Fan]

bttt

[PGalt]

Thanks for the great report! FR’s finest. America’s finest. Thanks to all in attendance.

[Sensei Ern]

Always a good time

[BufordP]

Go here. On my homepage you'll see "Boilerplate code to copy and paste at the bottom of every WR AAR:". If you do that then you'll produce this:

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If you can't get to D.C. to join us but would like to do something for the wounded, you can find a wealth of ideas by FReepmailing Tom the Redhunter, Cindy-True-Supporter, VAFlagwaver, or PleaDeal.

Come join us every Friday night between the hours of 6:30pm to approx 9:30pm.

Directions to our Walter Reed freep location from the Takoma metro station

BufordP's Walter Reed FReep archive

Tom the Redhunter's blog

PleaDeal's (GunnNutt) blog at Semper Gratus

[PleaDeal]

...and the links to the rest of the pics can be found here (Mrs. Trooprally) and here (PleaDeal).

BTW, half the pics were taken by Mrs. T and some more were taken by the author himself. Please join me in giving kburi a really hard time about the pitiful AARs he's been writing!

just kidding! You're doing a great job, kburi!

[BufordP]

You're a stinker! I should know.

7½ posted on 06/17/2008 11:44:18 AM EDT by Pepe LePew (Come weeth me to ze Casbah)

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To: kburi

You know me. I would never give you a hard time.

You're a stinker! I should know.

You know me. I would never give you a hard time.

[swmobuffalo]

Thanks for the continuing good job you all do in supporting our troops and counter acting the moonbats.

By the way, I see the moonbats have a “baby” banner now. Guess they aren’t strong enough for a MOAB!!

[3D-JOY]

Thanks for your great reports...I enjoy then and now that I am here, will read them to see all the pictures and hear what I missed while there each Friday!
( Well as often as possible! )