(I love the sign which says, "this is how terrorists negotiate" with the remains of the Trade Center in background.)
Posted on 03/17/2007 9:12:15 AM PDT by mdittmar
Funny, the sign was 2 queen size bedsheets in size. It took 6 of us to hold it up in the 20-30 mph wind.
Maybe we should have asked for help from the Airborne Vets?? Seriously, I for one am so very blessed that you folks DID hold that sign. Blessed my socks off to see the pictures of it (as well as the AP photo posted by NautiNurse!)
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(I love the sign which says, "this is how terrorists negotiate" with the remains of the Trade Center in background.)
Here's an article worth reading:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover031807.htm
Miracle in Washington
Gathering of Eagles, Generations of Valor
By Judi McLeod
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Yesterday, St. Patrick's Day 2007, a group of ordinary patriots, known nobly as The Gathering of Eagles, achieved something no one else ever could.
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Thanks for the ping. It took forever to download -- dial-up here -- but it was worth it.
Eagles Up!
TRULY AN HONOR TO MEET YOU AGAIN ... from the Freedom Concert, last year 
Did you ever think of going into Politics 
flora mcdonald put up some pictures. There's a good one of concretebob, and one with freema, usmccobra and I, as well as some other good pics.
http://unitedconservatives.blogspot.com/
And yellow.
...too FUNNEEE.....!!!!
Miracle in Washington
By Judi McLeod
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Yesterday, St. Patrick's Day 2007, a group of ordinary patriots, known nobly as The Gathering of Eagles, achieved something no one else ever could.
Ragtag by nature, Gathering of Eagles' membership includes the wounded, both walking and in wheelchairs, the gratefully and proudly ageing and the living-with-the-memory-of-lost- loved ones, brokenhearted. Some lie awake nights worrying about loved ones still in harm's way, but the one human emotion missing from Gathering of Eagle members is disillusion. All because if there was any chance the touted anti-war protesters were going to desecrate war memorials, then The Gathering of Eagles members were going to be there--no matter from how far away they had to come, no matter in what shape March 17 was to find them in.
When they came to the call of Move America Forward, they knew in their hearts that they would be up against it. March 17 was not only the 40th anniversary of the Mother of all anti-war protests, when a decades-ago massive march to the Pentagon demanded an end to the war in Vietnam, it was also being marked as the 4th Anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Capitalizing on the past, and gathering at a time when the Nancy Pelosi Democrats control the White House, the anti-war movement was flooding Washington, D.C. this weekend with a once-and-for-all demand for America to surrender the War on Terrorism.
Veterans joining up with the Gathering of Eagles from as far away as Hawaii, knew from the outstart they could be vastly outnumbered in body, but never in spirit.
From a heralding media, hundreds of thousands were said to be descending upon Washington. Jane Fonda would be there to meet them. The mainstream media, so many sadly in sync with the "U.S. Out of Iraq Now" crowd, would ensure that the other side would get little network attention.
Mother Nature brought the dawning of a cold day with proof from the age-old adage that "March wind (is) colder than snow."
Even though the counter protest was to be resoundingly successful, only snippets of what took place in Washington was to flicker briefly from yesterday's suppertime news.
But 'These Colors Don't Run', and this is what the troop-loving Move America Forward and the Gathering of Eagles accomplished against all odds.
The hundreds of thousands the anti-war movement promised did not descend on the nation's capital to mark a 40th anniversary destined never be forgotten. They numbered only in the thousands--and part of those thousands included the less protest savvy Other Side! Indeed, Fox News reported that the crowd totaled several thousand with as many from The Gathering of Eagles as from the anti-war crowd.
Jane Fonda was a no show. Not being able to count on Al Gore's global warming, perhaps she thought she'd get her tinted feathers wet.
Big-talking Hollywood celebrities left Cindy Sheehan out in the cold on her own.
Yesterday's sea change was bound to usher in a new chapter in history. The anti-war protesters were in Washington trying to sustain a 40-year-old memory with tired, old chants like the standby "Impeach Bush" one.
The Gathering of Eagles was in Washington to protect war memorials erected to honor the fallen and in a symbolic show of love for all living troops in harm's way.
One thing for anti-war protesters to hint at desecrating war memorials. One thing for a media to remain silent when soldiers are spit upon. Quite another to meet from the distance of right across the street, the steely-eyed glint of the veterans of real wars.
Yesterday was a televised pageant of play soldiers fighting war from the safety of a world away, meeting face on, the real McCoys, a sort of underplayed Gathering of Eagles vs. the Moonbats.
As the event played out, not all of the teared over eyes from the faces in the crowd were the result of whipping Washington winds.
There was an unforgettable reason.
For the week leading up to yesterday's anniversary protest, a caravan of families who lost children in the war on terrorism, families who still have loved ones serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and veterans of Vietnam, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom had crossed the nation hoping to get a single message across: "Surrender is not an option."
Melanie Morgan's Move America Forward caravan must have hit the road with niggling worry laced in with hope as it left San Francisco.
Anyone following the progress of the Caravan of Hope must have been misty eyed when reading about what happened within only hours of that departure. The caravan with its 10,000 flags to be sent as proof to troops fighting for freedom was mobbed along the way! Patient school children, holding homemade flags waited curbside for the caravan to pass by. Veterans wearing medals, school choirs sounding like singing angels and Americans from all walks of life left their kitchens to be there when the Move America Forward caravan was passing through Small Town America. By Texas, enthused crowds were so large, a police escort led the caravan along its way.
Little wonder why Washington winds couldn't extinguish heart warmth the caravan reached its final destination.
When history is written, March 17th, 2007 will at long last eclipse March 17, 1967, as the day when soldiers in faraway Iraq and Afghanistan knew for certain, no matter what real time saw them doing, love and respect await their safe return. The day when it was proven to a watching world that Washington war memorials stand for what they always stood for, time immemorial, the day when the graves of fallen American soldiers the world was made warmer.
God Blessed The Gathering of Eagles. They did it!
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover031807.htm
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http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=75491
In the background of that top picture of Kevin is me in my USMC boonie hat (by his right ear)and by his left hand is freema with her tan hat and flag scarf.
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Video for later.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful...thank you for sharing...
I hope they scatter like roaches after you turn the lights on! This country needs to have new light shed on what these people are all about and what their agenda is!
It was nice meeting you at the restaurant. Hope you had a safe trip home.
Likewise, it was great to meet the DC freepers. Thanks for all you've been doing!
Back to work in an hour after a 26 hour journey and a 6 hour rest.
Scatter the roaches!
Hi all of you,
I was there, and my grandaughter.
We drove in on the 15th, and stayed in Alexandria. I had reservations for closer but the cold and traffic did us in. We cancelled the Iwa Jimo reservations and stayed over in Alexandria, where we stayed on the 15th. Decided it would be easier than repacking everything and moving (plus $20 a night cheaper).
We ventured around D.C. the afternoon of the 16th, got soaking wet and frozen, and had to get hubby back to the room, so we didn't make it to the Walter Reed freep.
We were at the rally on the 17th. My grandaughter (13 years old)was interviewed on air by the Channel One Network. She was great, and got an applause from the folks standing nearby at the GOA event. It was supposed to air today in schools across the nation but we were on the road and missed it (we just got home about an hour ago, spent yesterday sightseeing).
I even had a long discussion with a young man from Michigan during the GOA event, who was there with the anti war protestors. He was wearing an IMPEACH BUSH sticker, and by the time we finished the conversation (he was actually agreeing he might have been mislead)he ripped off the sticker and said he'd he'd look into our side of it. I gave him the freerepublic web address, and he promised to check it out.
We shook hands as we parted ways. I hope he checks out FR. He really seemed like a decent young kid.
I have photos I'll post later. It was a wonderful experience and I think we sent a message that the majority of Americans are supporters of the troops. The GOA crowd was, I suspect, at least as large as the anti's, even thought the media I read and heard didn't say that.
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