Rally For America - Milledgeville, GA....3-8-03

dansangel; eyespysomething

[dansangel]

Today was a great day in the town of Milledgeville, GA. A pro-Military and pro-America rally was organized by fellow FReeper eyespysomething. It took place in front of the courthouse in the downtown historical district.

Approximately 200+ pro-America people turned out for the events which started with a color-guard presentation and various guest speakers. A singer was present, giving wonderful renditions of patriotic songs for the crowd.

There were only 2 anti-American demonstrators present and accounted for. They boldly displayed thier "War for Oil" and anti-president Bush placards at the rear of the crowd.

LBGA, .45MAN and myself arrived late having totally misjudged the ride-time to the rally from Atlanta. We left Norcross, GA at 10:00 a.m. and arrived to the rally at noon, a half-hour after it began. Because of this, I do not have details on who all the speakers were that eyespysomething lined up, but am hoping she'll post additional information to the thread.

LBGA spoke about her son who is stationed overseas and was very clear (directed to the anti-America duo) as to how important it is at this time to support our troops deployed overseas. Another couple with two sons in the Marine Corps. spoke, tearfully asking for prayers for all of the military who are deployed to protect our freedoms.

Let us all take the time each day to pray for our President as well as all of the men and women who are making great sacrifices to ensure that we are free to live in this great country of ours. We ask for the safety and protection of all of our troops. We ask our dear Father to grant comfort to the families and also that no one take our wonderful freedoms for granted. We ask our dear Father to give us the wisdom to thank our military members and to elevate them in daily prayer.

We ask this in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen

[dansangel]

{{{{{{{{backhoe}}}}}}}}

Offering up prayers for your electrnoic woes....we've got to keep you online!!!

[dansangel]

Beautiful BUMP graphics, Meekie!

{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}} to you and Ming!

[dansangel]

Looking forward to seeing you and MissVC this Saturday!

Hope you don't get too many paintball splats on ya! LOL!!

[dansangel]

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Excellent sign! Also, thank-you for posting a link to the Washington State rally....I'm going over there in a bit to check it out!

[MeekOneGOP]

Thank you, thank you ! . . .

[backhoe]

we've got to keep you online...

Well, at least it was the ISP instead of my hardware... thebest.net is located in the old Air South hanger at the St. Simons airport and it is famous for leaks...

[Billie]

Thank you for this excellent report - thank you Georgia FReepers, for your efforts and support of our country - our leaders and our Military!!

Prayers for all our brave men and women who have been deployed and are waiting for orders.

[dansangel]

thebest.net is located in the old Air South hanger at the St. Simons airport and it is famous for leaks...

LOL....and having just been there (and by the "airport" several times), I can just picture that!

[dansangel]

{{{{{{{{Billie}}}}}}}

A Blessed Sunday to you! Thank-you for your prayers - you are truly one of the biggest "cheerleaders" and prayer warriors for America and our troops!

[LBGA]

I am getting psyched for the rally next week! Someone said they liked seeing the pics of family members serving on the posters at the rally, so now I have a new poster for next week. :-)

What do y'all think?

[RobFromGa]

I love it!!! I think that I might use that for a few signs for my kids to carry. Any more like it?

[AlexW]

Good for Milledgeville..
My great great grandfather was postmaster there :)

[Billie]

OUTSTANDING!!!

[LBGA]

Sure! I'll print up several sheets for you to paste up. This was done with several 8.5 x 11 sheets and I'll have to glue them or tape them onto the folded poster board.

I think I may live just around the corner from you, judging by one house I see with lots of signs during election time, and I could drop them off for your kids to put together. Let me know by Freep mail if we are in the same area and how many you want.

Thanks for the positive feedback. :-)

[LBGA]

Thanks, Billie!

Now I have to leave for a while and get some house work done before the business week starts again. Hope everyone is having a super day. :-)

[eyespysomething]

WOW!
Thanks for coming guys. And, LinnyBeth, I forget your screenname, but you are included. Sorry I am so behind on posting on this. Thanks for the pictures, thanks for the thanks, and especially thanks for coming.
I'm really rreally sorry that I couldn't spend more time with you guys there! But at the end, when all those people came up and thanked me, I was OVERWHELMED! I kept telling them, the majority were veterans, or parents of people in the military, "no no, thank YOU!"
I was just so surprised that anyone would thank me for that. It was my pleasure, and it really made my day/week/month/year. The people I wanted to do it for were there.
LBGA - I didn't know you had a son overseas. My prayers to him, and thank you for being so supportive. I see parents of our service people at anti-war rallies, and while I understand they are scared and want their children home, they need to step up and support the decision their children make. Thank you.
The people with their son and nephew on the poster, were they FReepers? If they were I apologize for not remembering. My head was swimming the whole time!
And once again, all I can say is wow! The most the peace march/rally had was 30 or so, so this turn out was GREAT!!!! I can't wait until this coming Saturday! And I promise, I will FReep with the FReepers all day long.
The son of Sheriff Sils, the next to the last speaker, stood in front of the smelly anti-Bush protestors with our sign that said "I support George W. Bush" and just planted himself in front of them.
Of the 200 flags we had to hand out, we only had 28 left!
Thanks guys, and I love the inspiration I get here oin Free Republic. It really makes it easy to do something when I feel so passionately about it.

Thanks again, and FReep-on!

See everyone on the 15th!

[eyespysomething]

The little boy in the front here is my 7 yr old!

[eyespysomething]

Ha ha , that's where I work!!!

[eyespysomething]

USS Carl Vinson!

[eyespysomething]

Thanks! It is an honor for me to be able to do that for my Country!