Posted on 02/16/2006 12:02:43 PM PST by tgslTakoma
Last Friday was the fourth week that Freepers, Protest Warriors, friends, lurkers and other supporters of our troops had all four corners of the main entrance at Walter Reed, on which we were able to display our signs, flags and banners of support for the Wounded Warriors healing inside the hospital.
BillF's computers have all suffered major malfunctions in the past two weeks, and he is unable to post his usual fabulous report again this week.
Albion Wilde is working on a TOP SECRET project for this Friday, so she is also unable to post her usual fabulous report.
So, you got me as the official After Action Reporter this week.
I have no list of names for the Honor Roll - it's locked up in BillF's computer. Bill told me this morning that he had a head count of 39 Freepers manning the four corners. The Code PinkOs had a bad turnout; no Code Pink leaders were present on their mid-block location at any point during the evening. At their peak, they had only nine people, and that was for only twenty minutes. Most of the evening they had their core group of radicals; Guitar Man, Weasel, Bruce and his wife Candace, a woman and her very elderly and wheelchair-bound mother (grandmother, in-law??) and one other guy.
Now that we own all four corners, there is no doubt in the minds of passers-by as to what side we are on - and the horn honks and shouts of support for our troops, and thank yous to us for being there, are overwhelming!
And when the cars drive by the new mid-block location for Code Pink? Nary a toot is sent their way.
Word is getting around inside the hospital that the lefties are no longer out front with their demoralizing signs and anti-America attitudes; and the wounded troops are venturing outside the gate nowadays. This week saw even more Walter Reed patients coming out to talk to us and thank us for being there. While standing alongside us out on the sidewalk, they see and hear for themselves what the media won't report - that the majority of Americans do support them and their mission.
It's a lot nicer now to stand on our four corners - we can focus our message solely on support of the troops. It's a little bit more difficult when the pizza arrives though; I have to "deliver" to twice as many locations now. Maybe I need roller skates?
You can view my photos from February 10th HERE. I have video, but haven't had time to do anything with it. Unfortunately I don't have any stills of the Fran O'Brien's bus arriving - I was doing double still/video duty, and only have video of the bus.
The Fran O'Brien's bus arrived very late last Friday night, but the large crowd who had stood on the four corners since 6:30pm weren't about to leave without welcoming them through the gates. And at around 10pm when the bus was spotted coming up Georgia Avenue, the four corners erupted in cheers, applause and a mass of supportive signs and flags a-waving!
Traffic was light, so the bus driver stopped at the intersection and after a few seconds he turned on the interior light before turning into WRAMC, and his passengers waved and smiled at the sight of a four-cornered welcome party, for them!
Again this week, we had several Freepers from out of state join us:
Dinasour (from CT) skipped the Friday night CPAC banquet to stand with Freepers supporting our troops.
Tax Relief, Huber and one of their young tax deductions (up here for CPAC) joined us from NC.
Sisku Hanne and her husband drove down from PA.
Doctor Raoul made a "Hoagies for Heroes" run, and I hear that it was a big hit in all the right places.
To: JLO
Coop - did you ever think it's YOUR tagline that turns support-troops threads people off? Your tagline certainly did it for me!
Get lost, punk.
"Get lost, punk."
Don't your dare call ME a punk, Coop! I've been around awhile and I think YOU might be the punk.
LOL!
151 posted on 02/22/2006 6:07:35 AM CST by Coop (FR = a lotta talk, but little action)
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Same to you, coop. I never see YOU supporting the Troops!
JLO
I have helped quite a few VN vets obtain their benefits, at another site.
You just remind me of a persona from PTSD101!
Some of us keep up to-date private. Tried and true friends email private. I know a few FRiends who I trust enough.
Hia Pal, tell me where you mean...I'll be there - in spirit ! You can always FReepmail me!
JLO - partner to a Proud 173rd Airborne Army Ranger VN vet for 20 years. (Now a 100% disabled vet.) Physically disabled sucks.
(Thanks, JLO. Come on out and see us sometime!
153 posted on 02/22/2006 12:38:56 PM CST by Albion Wilde (The best service a retired general can give is to...mothball his opinions. – Omar Bradley)
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Hi, JLO,
Since your page says you're from the midwest and you say you are physically disabled, we will gladly accept positive thoughts and prayers. We (the DC Chapter) have been FReeping outside the gates of Walter Reed for the past 44 weeks. Code Pink started an anti-war "vigil" there at the end of March 2005, with distasteful, vile signs, and the DC Chapter showed up to counter. Not only have we been there ever since, but we managed to drive them away from the gates when they let their permit lapse and one of our clever people grabbed it. So now we have all four corners and they had to take their nasty selves down the block where they are approximately 92% less visible. We FReep from 7:00 to 9:45 Eastern time every Friday night, to welcome and cheer the Walter Reed patients, their families, and staffers coming and going from the gates. We welcome all FReepers to join us, either in person or by thought and prayer.
You're a psychotic punk, and anytime you're foolish enough to bother me with your prattle I'll be sure to remind you. Now go take your meds.
Thanks, I'll check back, Albion Wilde.
Coop (FR= a lotta talk, but little action) Says you, Coop.
Your tailgait might impress you - not me.
Your sage saying is total BS! Your BS is just that.
FR= a lotta talk, but little action) equals what YOU stand for, Coop.
YOU are all talk and no action, in my book, Coop!
Who the heck are YOU to decide?
Armchair warrier?
Bug off!
Seriously - get lost, loser, Coop!
Maaaaaaaybe you are ok, but I don't care a whit.
Who was talking to YOU Looser, Coop? Spill it - Looser-boy, Coop!
NO-BODY.
Coop, you ticked me off from day one. You want to go face off privately? Your thought your taglight was so cute - no FReepers do anything
Do it privately or STFU! You can't fist-fight online. Give it up.
Or be a man!
Gosh, whimps are so pathetic. They hover at www.democraticunderground.com.
I'm there in thought and prayer! And spirit and pics! I have many pics. If I don't have them personally I might be able to get them. Let me know...I can find most anything...!
You're a psychotic punk, and anytime you're foolish enough to bother me with your prattle I'll be sure to remind you. Now go take your meds.
Gosh, thanks looser, Coop!
Not!
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"You're a psychotic punk, and anytime you're foolish enough to bother me with your prattle I'll be sure to remind you. Now go take your meds."
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Hey, Coop, same! LOL!
It's no secret where I'm at every Friday evening, Psycho.
"It's no secret where I'm at every Friday evening"
LOL - as if a give a rip where you are on Friday nights.
Get over yourself. Nobody gives a hoot.
Correction!
as if "I" give a rip! what you do...
by Coop (FR= a lotta talk, but little action)
Mellow out...and listen to some oldie music.
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/Static.aspx?Type=Audio/Radio.htm&CategoryID=RA&LeftNav=Audio/RadioNav.htm
And yet you spend an inordinate amount of time obsessing over my tagline.
P-S-Y-C-H-O
I've mentioned your crappy tag a few times; I'm hardly obsessed about it.
Your home page -
http://www.freerepublic.com/~coop/
See a difference in viewpoints yet?
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