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Support Our Troops Rally Operation Yellow Ribbon Patriots Square Park (Downtown) Saturday April 12th -- 10:00 am. (Central & Washington) Please Bring the Following: *American Flags, A Roll of Yellow Ribbon, Support Signs to tell our Troops How We Feel! Come join in the fun! We will be taking digital pictures and tape to create a power point thank you card to send to the troops. We will be playing patriotic music, singing patriotic songs, having a patriotic time supporting our troops! Please Spread the Word! Bring as many Freedom-Loving Americans as you can to this rally to Support our...

Operation Military Pride is proud to be organizing the committee to present the first annual Rally for Support of our military, Operation Yellow Ribbon! On Armed Forces Day, May 17, 2003, we will be hosting a support rally at the Lincoln Memorial Monument to show our support for all of our deployed military members. We are teaming up with many other organizations in trying to show our men and women overseas that they are not forgotten. With all of the attention being focused on anti-war rallies and human shields voluntarily leaving for Iraq, we thought it was just as important...

Marchers hit streets to tack emblems on cars, buildings, trees Folks in Fieldsboro, New Jersey waved American flags, shouted patriotic slogans and sang songs while hitting the streets this afternoon to protest the Democrat council's decision to ban yellow ribbons on municipal property. Led by Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, about 100 marchers tacked ribbons to trees and to the front door of the building that serves as town hall for the borough's 522 residents, according to the Associated Press. The crowd cheered when Sliwa stuck a big yellow bow onto the hood ornament of the mayor's Lincoln. The decision...

<p>Unhappy with the mayor's policy banning yellow ribbons on municipal property, ralliers marched through town Saturday, tacking the offending emblems on everything from the front door of the town hall to the mayor's car.</p> <p>Led by Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, about 100 marchers left ribbons along the main street, then affixed dozens more to a pine tree when they reached an old school building that now serves as town hall for this central New Jersey borough's 522 residents.</p>

When Hartford Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Doreen Weibel wanted to tie yellow ribbons to trees on city property as a patriotic gesture toward U.S. troops in Iraq, getting permission was a phone call away. "I called up the mayor and he said, 'Go right ahead,' " Weibel said Friday. In Muskego, the city itself hung yellow ribbons - donated by a local florist - under the American flags displayed on its main street. And in Whitefish Bay, Police Chief Gary Mikulec has seen a number of yellow ribbons tied around trees in public parkways - and looked the...

MOORE TWP, PA -- Bus drivers for the Northampton Area School District showed they support American troops in the Persian Gulf this week with yellow ribbons on their vehicles' grills. The displays, though, only lasted about a day. Friday morning, a state trooper called the bus company to say the ribbons violate state law and must be removed. The drivers for Macungie-based Laidlaw Bus Service Inc. were outraged. "We want to be able to show support for our troops," driver Valerie Paul of Moore Township said. "We are not taking the bows of our buses, and we're standing together united...

Apr 3, 8:10 AM EST Yellow Ribbon Ban Inflames N.J. Town By ANGELA DELLI SANTIAssociated Press Writer FIELDSBORO, N.J. (AP) -- Yellow ribbons and all other private displays have been banned from public property here, a decision that has drawn criticism from residents and business owners who want to show their support for American troops fighting in Iraq.The Fieldsboro Borough Council approved the ban last month. Mayor Edward "Buddy" Tyler said it does not prohibit residents from placing memorials on their own property.A candlelight vigil protesting the decision has been planned for Thursday and a protest was scheduled for Saturday....

... The mayor, a Democrat who has expressed opposition to the war, said yesterday that he had acted only in response to residents' asking why Mrs. Johnson was allowed to put up ribbons while other displays were not permitted on public property. ... The dispute between the Johnsons, who are Republicans, and the mayor, who has served off and on for the last 25 years, may hark back to the 1978 election. Mr. Tyler won at the polls on Election Day, but then his opponent was declared the winner on the strength of 51 absentee votes. Later, Mr. Tyler accused...

 Yellow Ribbon Germany Welcome to Yellow Ribbon Germany! This website mainly addresses the German public, therefore (at least for the moment) we will only provide a brief English summary. Yellow Ribbon Germany takes up the American tradition of support to the servicemen and women serving to protect freedom and democracy worldwide. Our government and a large portion of the media oppose the American efforts to end the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. We do not share this view and support our American friends. For all the Germans who still value the transatlantic friendship and who are ready and willing to fight...

RIBBON REBELLION; Ribbons displayed in Fieldsboro despite mayor’s ban LAURA PELNER, Staff Writer March 31, 2003 FIELDSBORO -- The sign just off Route 130 welcoming visitors to Fieldsboro was outlined with yellow ribbons and adorned with American flags yesterday, making it hard for passersby to ignore. The patriotic scene was a stark change from five days ago, when the borough’s mayor ordered residents to take down the one ribbon they had put on the sign to support U.S. troops fighting the war in Iraq. "It’s absolutely unbelievable," said David Johnson, owner of Hegyi’s liquor store, which is just behind the...

Why Do We Put Up Yellow Ribbons During Wars? Yellow ribbons first emerged as a national symbol in January 1981, when they sprouted like weeds to welcome home the Americans held hostage in Iran. The whole thing was started by Penelope (Penne) Laingen, wife of Bruce Laingen, U.S. charge d'affaires in Teheran. Ms. Laingen says she was inspired by two things: (1) the song "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree," written in 1972 by Irwin Levine and Larry Brown and made famous by Tony Orlando and Dawn, and (2) the prior example of one Gail Magruder. Ms....

Freeping works, keep it up, Angry residents Jammed City Hall phones Amazingly Americans are waking up and DEMANDING THAT OUR elected officials, Movie Starts, and Press start a PRO-AMERICA STANCE. The little snots are finally paying a consequence for their action. RIP Barfing Bill Moyer, Dipps Do Dixie Cheeks, Booing at Michael Boore, and Chris Cross Rock who was yelled at by DREAMWORKS and told no bash Prez. Thanks to the Freepers who post phone, email, Fax, and address of the Anti-American Slime. The I-HATE-AMERICA Columbian Professor has even started to feel the heat, and the other Marxist in this...

The yellow ribbon, an American symbol of loyalty and patriotism, the welcome home sign to veterans returning from war, the semi-icon that was inspired by the 19th century Civil War ballad "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," is not only selling like gangbusters at area flag shops. Randy Hanks, a Provo Parks Department employee, checks a flag after he and his co-workers placed it in front of the Provo City Library. Flags are flying out the door of flag shops.Jennifer Grigg, for the Deseret News It has inspired a gathering downtown on Saturday, April 12, of several thousand Utahns — all...

MODERATORS: As this is a Freep on a short fuse, please leave in "Breaking News" all day Saturday. Have an idea for a protest against the "Fieldsboro's Stinking Six" who have equated Yellow Ribbons supporting our troops with the Nazi flag. Fieldsboro is 5 minutes from Exit 7 of the New Jersey Turnpike. The exact location is Rt 130 and Dunn's Mill Rd. Dunn's Mill Rd crosses Rt 130, a tenth of a mile south of the junction of I-295 and Rt 130 in Bordentown. There is a NJ State Police Barracks and a NJ National Guard Maintenance Facility...

A Town Disgraced The debate whether or not the United States should use military force to remove the Iraqi threat and liberate the oppressed Iraqi people is no longer a timely one. Before March 19th at around 9:30 p.m. this could be considered a practical debate, but it is now a theoretical one for academics to banter back in forth in their ivory towers. The reality is that war is. Our troops are now engaged in battle and whether you thought we should go to war or not, I would hope that you are rooting for the United States to...

Saturday March 29th, at 5 am the yellow ribbons, that were torn down, will go back up. Brenda Freeman will tie the ribbons back up. She does this for her son Eric and all the military. Lynn Road and Hillcrest.

The city of Thousand Oaks, CA took down 300 yards of yellow ribbons, from the trees, on Lynn Road. They were placed there by Brenda Freeman for her son Eric, who is currently in the Gulf.

FIELDSBORO, N.J. (AP) -- Yellow ribbons and all other war memorials have been banned from public property here, a decision that has drawn criticism from residents and business owners who want to show their support for American troops fighting in Iraq. The Fieldsboro Borough Council approved the ban last week, but Mayor Edward ``Buddy'' Tyler said it does not prohibit residents from placing memorials on their own property. He said that while town officials ``certainly recommend'' that residents show their support for the troops, there were other concerns that must be recognized. ``Where would you draw a line if you...