We snuck out of work about 40 minutes early and headed for the Park Strip and the Military Memorial area to attend my first Tea Party event here in Anchorage. There have been 2 others, but at noon on Tuesday and Wednesday....the others have been in Wasilla, about an hours drive north.
We heard some music, then we all sang the National Anthem, 1st and 4th verses...they passed out the words to the 4th. Then the Invocation. Then a really good speaker, the afternoon drive guy on the station I listen to every day. He is one of the founders of the Conservative Patriots Group. I like them alot. I like the candidates they are endorsing.
The next speaker was a Gold Star Mom. She has a pickup painted with all sorts of tributes to our soldiers. I loaned my camera out, and forgot to borrow my Dad's. *sigh* Her son, PFC Jessy S Rogers, 4th of 13 kids, was killed in Afghanistan, with 4 others, in an IED attack in July 2007.
Then a lone piper played Amazing Grace....I cried.
Hot dogs and HUGE cupcakes were had by all. A good couple hours.
"We must take back our country....we must elect conservative value candidates." "We must elect canditates who believe that the Constitution is NOT a living document."