Oh, BTW, you have a beautiful son....
God Bless America, God Bless Our DC Freepers, and God Bless Free Republic....
Posted on 10/14/2001 10:18:11 AM PDT by VaMarVet
A short but sweet report from the DC Chapter Warlord. My additions are:
(1) A family from New Jersey stopped by our compound. They were in town to see their daughter who attends GW. Their 13 year old son who wrestles and also claims to be more conservative than El-Rushbo was extremely well spoken and put forth his thoughts in a well reasoned and logical manner. While his parents may have influenced his thinking he was not spouting the family line.
(2) A lady passerby with her daughter and daughter's friend got into it with the permanently encamped anti-war ban the bomb groups that kristinn refers to. Her daughter was surprised to see her mother take after them. I told her that she should be proud of her mother for speaking up and not to be embarrassed. she agreed.
(3) I chatted up a father daughter that had wandered by on their bikes. I learned that the daughter was attending Georgetown so being the wise guy I asked her if the crucifixes had been returned to the classroom walls. The father was surprised at my statement. And I indicated that even though the university had been founded by the Jesuit Order that two years ago the crucifixes had been removed so as not to offend. He said that what was wrong with this country. I notice he was wearing a Princeton Lacrosse cap and asked him if they were going to recapture the national crown this year. He indicated that his son had played on the National Championship team. He then said his son was there and nodded towards pictures of the World Trade Center. I asked if he got out. He simply shook his head no. With that he rode off with his daughter. There is no way that I can begin to understand the depth of his hurt or the magnitude of his loss. I can only pray that God keeps him and his family close.
It was a fine day to be alive and American. Hope to see you all when next the DC Chapter's Warlord calls a meet.
Oh, BTW, you have a beautiful son....
God Bless America, God Bless Our DC Freepers, and God Bless Free Republic....
Great job to the DC Freepers.
I still can't get over the fact that we wound up in the elipse as opposed to Lafayette Park - just goes to show I need to spend a bit more time in DC!!!!!.
At least I got to say hi to some of you - I'll keep an eye out and hopefully will be able to make it back over on the 27th.
EAGLES UP!!!!!
Congratulations to your son, too, for making AP Photo Newswire history. A "chip off the old block" ehh?!? ;-)
Another FReep well done, Dave. Thanks again, for helping organize this.
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