Posted on 04/10/2003 4:41:21 PM PDT by samkatz
Thousands of union workers bearing American flags and homemade signs packed a rally at ground zero today to show their support for U.S. military efforts in Iraq.
The rally stretched for several blocks north from the World Trade Center site. Carpenters, electricians and firefighters chanted "USA! USA!" as labor leaders and politicians addressed the crowd.
Police and organizers estimated the crowd at more than 15,000 people.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
and they want to know why no one to the right of Karl Marx watches their news?
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Flag waving construction workers rally in support of American troops near the site of the World Trade Center in New York on April 10, 2003. About 25,000 workers clad in hard hats, blue jeans, and workmen's boots gathered near the site where many of them dug relentlessly through rubble after the September 11 attacks. REUTERS/Peter Morgan - Apr 10 3:02 PM |
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Construction workers rally in support of American troops near the site of the World Trade Center in New York on April 10, 2003. About 25,000 workers clad in hard hats, blue jeans, and workmen's boots gathered near the site where many of them dug relentlessly through rubble after the September 11 attacks. REUTERS/Peter Morgan - Apr 10 3:33 PM |
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Ray Fiore of Brooklyn, N.Y., wearing a 9/11 tattoo and a hat with a soldier figure on it, shows his support for U.S. military efforts in Iraq (news - web sites) during a rally at the World Trade Center site in New York Thursday, April 10. 2003. (AP Photo/Robert Spencer) - Apr 10 3:26 PM |
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James Fegel, of Ridge, N.Y., holds a sign and American flag in support of the U.S. military efforts in Iraq (news - web sites), Thursday, April 10, 2003, during a rally near World Trade Center site, in New York. (AP Photo/Robert Spencer) - Apr 10 3:28 PM |
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A construction workers bellows at a rally in support of American troops near the site of the World Trade Center in New York on April 10, 2003. About 25,000 workers clad in hard hats, blue jeans, and workmen's boots gathered near the site where many of them dug relentlessly through rubble after the September 11 attacks. REUTERS/Peter Morgan - Apr 10 2:26 PM |
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ADDS THE NAME OF THE MARINE PLACING FLAG**Cpl. Edward Chin, from New York, of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines Regiment, covers the face of a statue of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) with an American flag before toppling the statue in downtown Baghdad Wednesday, April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) - Apr 10 8:34 AM |
So, it just couldn't have happened, nice if it did, but it couldn't have.
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