[baseballmom]

Here are my (few) pictures from the rally at Valley Forge today. There was a huge turnout. According to the radio on the way home, there were "thousands". More comments coming -

[Happy2BMe]

Wonderful!

America's Finest - The SpearTip of Freedom. (Photos of our deploying troops - share yours)

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors; they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." Samuel Adams

An air cushion landing craft passes an American flag as it carries U.S. Marines with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit to waiting ships from Onslow Beach in Camp Lejeune, N.C., Wednesday March 5, 2003. More than 2,300 Marines and sailors deployed Wednesday.

[NicoleGTalum]

It is so great to see yours and our pics up (Atlanta)! It shows how many more people in our country support our President, our troops and our country! Way to go!

[God luvs America]

Looks great, keep up the good work. Hopefully we get weather like this for the rally in NY next Sunday. Hope to see some of you Philly people come up north a bit and join us!!

[blam]

Excellent. Looks like a great rally.

[newslady]

Congratulations on your great rally. Love the pics. We are having our New Orleans area Rally for America this Friday, and we are hoping that our rally will be as successful as yours.

[JulieRNR21]

I just emailed this thread to FOX NEWS.....we must keep after them to report Support Our Troops Rallies like the one at Valley Forge!

[ppaul]

I like this one.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Wow to whoever organized this! Beautiful pictures.

[DollyCali]

Well, still not "quite home" from Valley forge.. but I am "FRuising" thru all of your notes/pictures. It was a wonderful rally - thank all of you for your hard work ! & nice to be in shorts & tank top here rather than the 5 layers I had in Cleveland. I will be home in Cleveland today & then will eventually look at the pix I took w / two digital cameras. & would love to share my pictures with you. At least some of them ( I took about 700 at valley forge & 500 at cleveland). I don't know the process to post them Will try to figure it out. my pictures are large files.. 500-700KB. Know I will have to reduce etc. I and the cameras were in a mud hole of sorts & my dog was pretty afraid of the noise/crowd & did more jumping on me (with mud!) so hopefully the lens was not a mud smudge. I am so glad I found this website on Saturday. and so glad I made the trip alone! Nice to have met some of you.

[abner]

Here is a shot from the air- This was about 12:15 ish.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Hey guys.. I just found this in my archive. Very fitting tribute about a Valley Forge Soldier!! Enjoy!! Vets
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I want you to close your eyes and picture in your mind the soldier at
Valley Forge, as he holds his musket in his bloody hands.

He stands barefoot in the snow, starved from lack of food, wounded from
months of battle and emotionally scarred from the eternity
away from his family surrounded by nothing but death and carnage of war.

He stands tough, with fire in his eyes and victory on his breath. He
looks at us now in anger and disgust and tells us this...

I gave you a birthright of freedom born in the Constitution and now your
children graduate too illiterate to read it.

I fought in the snow barefoot to give you the freedom to vote and you
stay at home because it rains.

I left my family destitute to give you the freedom of speech and you
remain silent on critical issues, because it might be bad for
business.

I orphaned my children to give you a government to serve you and it has
stolen democracy from the people.

It's the soldier not the reporter who gives you the freedom of the
press.

It's the soldier not the poet who gives you the freedom of speech.

It's the soldier not the campus organizer who allows you to demonstrate.

It's the soldier who salutes the flag, serves the flag, whose coffin is
draped with the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag!!!

"Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they
protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they
perform for us in our time of need. Amen."


Prayer Wheel:
When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our
U.S. ground troops in Afghanistan, and the ones facing
deployment to Iraq
at this very moment - AND all over this world.
This can be very powerful.... Just send
this to all the people in your address book.

Of all the gifts you could give a US Soldier, Prayer is the very best
one...

[TAdams8591]

WE were there. We didn't see a one of you. What a darn shame.