OPERATION INFINITE FREEP, COLORADO STYLE - 4/19

Colorado Chapter of FreeRepublic.com ^ | 04/18/03 | Tom Buchanan

[fivetoes]

OPERATION INFINITE FREEP, COLORADO STYLE

Attention! Greeley and Loveland Freeps have changed!

WHO: All Freepers, the VFW, any other interested parties
WHAT: Support Our Troops Rally (Operation Infinite Freep)
WHY: To show our troops that we are behind them and to counter the anti war protesters across the street.
How You Can Help:Show up and bring a sign that indicates Support for our Troops. If you don't have a sign, we have plenty to go around. Bring an American flag to wave proudly.

These Freeps take place Every Saturday. Try to make at least one of them!

Ft. Collins
WHERE: North East corner of Mulberry and College WHEN:Noon to 1:00 p.m.

Loveland
WHERE: US-34 and 287 WHEN:1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Longmont
WHERE: South East corner of 6th and Main WHEN:2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Greeley
WHERE:35th Ave. and 16th St. (next to the Weld County Veterans Memorial)
WHEN:11:00 a.m. to Noon

Let's be nice and not get into any trouble. Protesting Guidelines

Please post your after FReep Reports here!

Reports of Freeps since June, 2002 have been cataloged for your reference. Past Reports

[fivetoes]

FYI

[fivetoes]

[weldgophardline]

LOVE THE PIC!!
We will be in Greeley from 11:00 to 12:00 then going to Loveland for the big rally. Hope to see all the FReepers out in the rain and wind showing support.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

You all have fun tomorrow! We'll be at the inlaws in Burlington CO for Easter weekend. No leftists out there that I know of to Freep. As far as pro-troop rallies go, I've never heard of any out there either, but I'll have to ask. You never know.

[weldgophardline]

Watch out for the wind out there it blows hard. Maybe if Trteamer and I toss one up high it could make it to Burligton so you wo'nt feel so sad and down.

[Fearless Flyers]

I hope the Son shines all over all of you all today!

Sincerely Matthew

[RMrattlesnake]

I love it. What a cool sign on that truck.

[RandallFlagg]

Sorry I couldn't make it this Saturday, folks.
It went like this...
My Wife's Dad was sick,
They visited him,
Came home,
Kissed yours truly,
*cough*
Well, I've felt better.
See ya next week...

Unless they bring me the plague....

[weldgophardline]

GREELY REPORT:
In Greeley the wind was back to its normal self,hard and mean. We had a hard time holding the flags and signs today but it was worth it to hear the honks of support for our troops. I sent my wife down to the peace puke corner to see how they were holding up and she had a sign for them, it had on it "FREED IRAQI PEOPLE NOT IN YOUR NAME" it did get them pissed off. The only honks at this corner was when my wife put up the honk for the troops sign she took with her. My wife has become a hard nose FReeper in her own right.We had only one helper today but because of the weather I'am glad to have the one, he is a member of the local Marine corp league. The will be photos on my site later.It is at http://photos.yahoo.com/dalep61


LOVELAND REPORT:
The rally at Loveland has become a great rally in any weather rain or shine. There was 20 or 30 people out in the rain doing a great job showing support for the troops. The people even got to see a auto accident to just like a demo derby. Thankfully no one hurt. The wind was not as bad as Greeley thank you GOD!! I'll have pictures at the site above on this one to. It is hard to belive that two hours can go by so fast when you are doing FReeps like this.There are people coming from all over Colorado to these rallies some even came from Denver. They are finding out on the web sites both FreeRepubic and Fivetoes one that he has done for the Loveland Service men and women in the armed forces and their families. I can't wait for the big rally fivetoes is planning in the coming weeks it should be a GREAT ONE!!

[weldgophardline]

Photos are up on site now

[Trteamer]

GREAT JOB!!

Sorry I had to miss FReeping this weekend. Springtime has too many chores. Thanks so much for being there!! Thanks for giving the peace-niks a hard time. Opersation Iraqi Freedom certainly isn't in their name!

What's this about fivetoes and a huge Rally? Sounds like fun.
All the Best!!

[fivetoes]

The rain may have discouraged some folks from coming out, but that did not stop the 32 or so people from taking a stand and showing support for our troops. At 12:55 p.m. it was gently raining and it looked like it was not going to let up. As if by divine intervention, at exactly 1:00 p.m. the rain stopped. The skies remained overcast throughout our two hour rally, except for a brief moment when good old Mr. Sun peeked through a hole in the clouds.

One proud mom from Denver whose son is in the service drove all the way from Denver to stand on the corner with us. She held a sign with a picture of her son on it. She found out about our rally by going to the 9 News link from the interview of Mike Pappas which took her to the Loveland web site for people supporting the troops and their families. From there she found out about us taking a stand on the corner.

The proud mom from Denver.

We were joined once again by the Colorado Patriots Fife and Drum Corps who played brilliantly as ususal. Talking with Paul the piper afterwards, he informed us that the Marine Corps Hymn was originally composed to be played by bagpipes. It is probably why it sounds outstanding when the fife and drum corps play it.

The Colorado Patriots Fife and Drum Corps played once again.

As usual, the horn honking was extremely enthusiastic! It was interupted for a brief moment when someone was driving too close to someone else who decided at the last second to turn into the Dairy Queen. There was a rear end fender bender that resulted.

The Associated Veterans Club has been selling 'Support Out Troops' lawn signs and bumper stickers. This week they added t-shirts to the line of products. All proceeds from the sales of these products are going to be used to send Love packages to the troops from Loveland.

The new 'Support Our Troops' T-shirts have arrived.

Here are a few more pictures of the rally.

These two were taken by Deb from Greeley, gophardline's wife. The first is gophardline dodging traffic and the second is of a member of the support group whose sister is in Iraq.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Great job you guys! Sounds like about 3/4 of us N. Colo. Freeper "regulars" ended up all having some problem or other on the same day, and couldn't make it. I'm sure the Ft. Collins one went OK though.

I especially liked this one --
"FREED IRAQI PEOPLE NOT IN YOUR NAME"

Heh heh!! I just LOVE that!! You haven't copyrighted it, have you?

[RMrattlesnake]

Our LOSER Freind who wears the falg upside down claims that Freepers treaten him wuith his life funny the only one who treaten to kill anyone was Loser when he called the VFW and treaten to kill them. This guys is very unslable and need mental help.

[RandallFlagg]

Yeah, we're gonna have fun with him Saturday.

[bluesagewoman]

Wonderful report and photos! You all have way too much fun! Thanks for posting these reports. They make my day!