Posted on 03/21/2007 7:22:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On Saturday, I was privileged to participate in the Gathering of Eagles in our nation's capital. The gathering was arranged on short notice, mostly via the Internet, as a way for American military veterans to stand and defend our national memorials against any efforts at vandalism by anti-war (and anti-America) protesters from the group ANSWER (Act Now to Stop the War and End Racism). Members of that group had defaced the U.S. Capitol Building with spray-paint in January. The Gathering of Eagles was designed to assist the United States Park Police in defending the Vietnam Wall and other monuments against similar vandalism.
In short, the gathering could be called the "So Brave" versus "So Confused" event.
While this column is simply one man's opinion, the viewpoints expressed herein seem to have resonated throughout the National Mall on this year's recent Saint Patrick's Day. And, it is significant to note that the established "lamestream" news media have either ignored or minimized the presence of America's military veterans and their families at the event. Any of those media stories, however, can be easily countered by the information in this column, and by this Michelle Malkin video.
The ANSWER protesters carried pre-printed signs. What the left-tilting news media do not tell the public is that the Socialist Workers Party provided the signs. And, the news media (which did not have a single satellite news truck on the Eagles side of the events) also did not show the fact that the anti-America protesters tried repeatedly to incite confrontations with the Eagles and their supporters.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Next time I get a group of jarheads together, I’ll need to get a camera out after a few beers and ask them if they need protecting by the likes of that.
The only thing I can come up with to make sense of their way of thinking is lead poisoning, or some genetic defect that impairs the frontal lobes.
Damn, missed all the fun!
Dang, I always miss all the fun.
I was thinking of not hitting the abuse button, but it just wasn’t right for that kind of post to remain on a thread about GOE’ers
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