Post pics,news,speeches on the Fight for Victory Tour/Gathering of Eagles Pro Troop Rally
Posted on 09/15/2007 9:17:16 AM PDT by mdittmar
Update 10:35am Eastern. The anti-Cindy Sheehans are here! Blue Star mom Deborah Johns: “Cindy Sheehan doesn’t speak for me. She has never spoken for me. And she will never speak for me! We are winning this war. Now let our troops finish their job!…We are not going to let the domestic enemies at home defeat us like they did [during the Vietnam War.]…No retreat, no surrender. Not now. Not ever!…We are not 50 red states or blue states. We are the United States of America…These colors don’t run.”
Debbie Lee, mother of the first Navy SEAL killed in Iraq, Mark A. Lee, speaks. Describing her son’s heroism. “You can’t ‘take’ someone’s life who gives it…and Mark willingly gave his life….God redeployed Mark to heaven.”
Singer Diana Nagy performs.
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9:45am. The Gathering of Eagles are on Madison Ave. and 7th in front of the Capitol. Melanie Morgan of Move America Foward and Kristinn Taylor of FreeRepublic.com have just addressed a growing crowd. A priest ends his invocation: “Surrender is not a word in our vocabulary.”
Larry Bailey and Chris Hill of Gathering of Eagles have welcomed the activists. Hill: “What happened in Vietnam will not happen to this generation.” Hill mentions a 9/11 survivor who brought a large American flag flying on stage. “That’s what we fight for.”
Hill pumping up the crowd: “All across the country people are yelling at the television sets when they see Code Pink. They are looking for us. Yell loud enough so they can hear us. Yell loud enough so our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan can hear us.” Crowd is chanting: “USA, USA, USA!”
“It’s time for us to yell back…We’re not taking it anymore.”
Pete Hegseth of Vets for Freedom:
“I figured I’d seize this opportunity to quote a man best known for his $400 haircut. He claims there are two Americas in this country. For once, he’s right. There are two Americas…on display here today.
One America here today to desecreate our war memorials…those who want to retreat from the battlefield teeming with Islamic extremists
On the other hand, there are those who are here to defend our memorials, who understand the threat we face. This America. Our America…We cannot let a bunch of sign-waving, slogan-chanting protesters…speak for us.”
Hegseth mentions the MoveOn.org ad. “Stand up to the voices of defeat and retreat….As an infantryman who fought over there, I understand the difficulties…al Qaeda has drawn the line in the sand…I understand that Gen. Petraeus is working with American soldiers, brave Iraqis, to turn the tide in Iraq…Americans are saying, ‘We want victory.’”
“History will judge us not by when we leave, but by what we leave behind…Tell Congress to have as much courage on Capitol Hill as our soldiers have on the front lines.”
Brad Blakeman of the newly-created Freedom’s Watch now addressing the crowd. “Message to Code Pink: There’s a new sheriff in town and we plan to be around a long time.”
Military of the Order of Purple Heart commander Henry Cook on stage welcoming the crowd.
Popular singer Lloyd Marcus performs, “Remember 9/11.”
Great job, unleash hell on the enemies of the US!
Thanks md.
Thanks, jennyjenny, I am listening to some of the live reports now.
Thanks for the update and keeping us homebodies in the loop!
The MAF folks are fantastic!! God Bless each and everyone of you for your hard work ad dedication to our troops!!
http://www.moveamericaforward.org/images/uploads/blogimages/maf_ffvt_cedar10.jpg
http://www.moveamericaforward.org/images/uploads/blogimages/maf_ffvt_cedar09.jpg
These are the pics of our dragrace car at the Cedar Rapids Rally...we are proud to display the MAF and WWP decals on the car, it is an honor!!!
I have a bunch of National Dragster magazines, they cover the NHRA drag racing series, that I was wondering how I can get them sent to the troops??
Can someone point me in the right direction??
Thanks!!
BTTT.
Should be a crucial time right now as the commies are on the march.... Blogtalk audio went out....
Moonbats coming, 9th and Pennsylvania, by the archives and Navy Memorial Fountains
re: broadcast
For laptops checking in.
Broken feed for anyone else now?
Donate them to any Active duty or VA Hospital. If you want them to go to Iraq or Afghanistan, try calling the Red Cross or the USO.
I can’t get right now either.
I lost the feed too
I just lost it too.
Bummer, right as the moonbat heckling was about to get started.
Jen
A Million Thanks
A Soldier's Wish List
Adopt-a-Chaplain
Adopt a Platoon
Adopt A Soldier Ministries
American Care Packages
The American Legion
American Legion Auxiliary
Angels 'n Camouflage, Inc.
Any Soldier
Armed Forces Foundation
Armor 4 Troops
Boatsie's Boxes
Blue Star Mothers of America
Caring For Troops
Central Illinois Proud Families of Marines
Dallas Is Love
Defenders of Freedom
Deployed Soldiers Family Foundation
Flags Across the Nation
The Freedom Fund
Freedom Is Not Free
Give 2 The Troops
Have a Heart/Adopt a Soldier
Hearts Across the Miles
Helping Our Troops
Hero Hugs
Home of the Brave Quilts
Homefront Hugs USA
The Hugs Project
Keystone Soldiers
Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW
Landstuhl Hospital Care Project
Letters From Home
Local Heroes
Marine Corps Family Foundation
Marine Corps Family Support Community
Military Ministry
For your viewing and listening pleasure a link to my blog round up from the whole past week:
http://www.naturalfamilyblog.com/archives/001140.html
Jenny
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Maybe Geraldo spit on her an she's being disinfected.
ROFL. What the heck happened to Blogtalk’s audio, dadgummit?
Thank you!!!!
GRRRrrrrrr.....just when it was getting good, too! :(
Update: 1:30pm Eastern. I’ve just finished interviewing several Gold Star parents who are here to ensure that their children’s names are not used and exploited by the ANSWER thugs preparing to hold a “die-in” at the base of the Capitol. The ANSWER mob is on its way here from the White House. They’ll be marching some 25 blocks to get here. The Eagles have thanked Capitol Hill police all along the route.
i’ve looking for this thread...
Are they waiting for the moonies to march by?
Fun radio, lol.
Looks like the nitwits will have to pass by Patriots;)
“I’m very, very proud to be an American today,” says a caller from on-scene.
God bless our Eagles and Eaglettes in our Nation’s capital today.
“God bless America.”
Ooooh, that’s a lot of people... and such a gorgeous day!!
Duncan in a pic here to capture for vid later.
My earsssssssssssss.
^^
You and me, Sistah!!...:)
Michelle Malkin reporting via phone now!!!!!
M’wah, Michelle!!
Are these the same moonbats who disrupted the Petraeus hearing this week?
I hope someone caught Morgan’s snarl at the antis... and them running. ROFL
Fantastic!!!!
We need Melanie to put up a transcript as soon as she gets a chance so we can email it out to the press.
I hope someone captured video/audio of Hunter’s speech!
Are you able to listen somewhere? I still can’t get it on the earlier link.
It’s time for, ‘What’s wrong with this column?’
Ooh, they moved us up to the 13th paragraph.
Antiwar Protest Held in Washington
The first major protest against the Iraq War in Washington since January kicked off today with speeches near the White House, to be followed by a “die-in” at the U.S. Capitol featuring the playing of taps and a mock 21-gun salute.
Protesters and counter-protesters started to gather by 8:30 a.m. for the event, which is expected to be followed by a week of civil disobedience in the Washington area intended to shift the anti-war movement to a more confrontational phase. Organizers were predicting tens of thousands of protesters, though their permit is for 10,000.
Like the last major anti-war march in January, when tens of thousands descended on the Mall, today’s events come at a tense time in the fractious debate over the U.S. mission in Iraq. Today’s rally and march on the Capitol follows this week’s congressional testimony by Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and President Bush’s speech to the nation on Thursday. The president ordered the first limited troop withdrawals since voters elected an antiwar Congress last year, but Democratic leaders immediately criticized his plan.
The event today is organized by the ANSWER Coalition, which stands for Act Now to Stop War and End Racism. It formally began at noon at Lafayette Park, on the north side of the White House, with speeches from at least two dozen speakers ranging from former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Ralph Nader to Washington Wizards player Etan Thomas and Michael Berg, whose son Nicolas was a contractor killed in Iraq.
In Lafayette Park, hundreds of protesters gathered to wait for the day’s speeches. They walked around with signs that said the country should “drop Bush, not bombs” and declaring the President guilty of war crimes. They also listened to songs such as “the revolution will not be televised” and Edwin Starr’s classic antiwar song “War.”
Juan Torres Sr., 52, of Chicago, held a poster with a photo of his son, Juan Torres Jr. in his Army uniform. Torres said his 25-year-old old son died while serving in the war in 2004. Military officials, he said, told him his son committed suicide by shooting himself, but Torres doesn’t believe it.
He said he opposes the war because “I don’t want to see other families like mine” lose a child.
The demonstrators were immediately confronted by several hundred counter-protesters, who came to the Mall to demand that politicians see the war through to victory. At a large stage on the Mall at 7th Street, speakers said they did not want to abandon the Iraqi people, as they said America had done in ending the Vietnam war, and that they wanted soldiers to be shown respect when they returned from Iraq.
Anti war protesters who approached the fringes of the counterdemonstration on the Mall were quickly chased off. One man in a tie dye t-shirt was surrounded by several screaming counterdemonstrators who called him a traitor. He replied, “Is this what we’ve come to,” before being escorted away by police.
Organizers said at least 1,000 people had registered for the “die-in” at the Capitol. Most people registered online earlier in the week, but others did today at the site of the rally.
Those who registered were given a four-page handout instructing them to be “willing to risk arrest.’’ In case they are arrested, the handout said, protesters should bring their medication and make sure they have eaten.
“You should eat prior to risking arrest,’’ the handout said. “It may be several hours before you have access to food.’’
Two counterprotest groups, the Gathering of Eagles, made up of Vietnam veterans, and the D.C. chapter of the conservative group Free Republic, led today’s counterdemonstrations.
At the U.S. Navy Memorial, members of the Gathering of Eagles set up a command post in anticipation of counter protesters who planned to line Pennsylvania Avenue near 7th St. NW. Organizers said they plan to counter antiwar protestor’s chants but had no plans for civil disobedience.
“It will be a lot of bull horns, a lot of ‘singing God Bless America’, “ said Betty Kilbride, 48, of Arlington, a writer who described herself as supporting the troops. Deborah King-Lile, 55, of St. Augustine, Fla. said the Gathering of Eagles prided themselves on not being arrested at protests. “We just want a chance to show America we don’t agree with the vocal minority.”
Staff writers Nelson Hernandez, Katherine Shaver and Michelle Boorstein contributed to this report.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/15/AR2007091500826.html
In other words, “We don’t care about the oppositions numbers and feel free to bait the counters into violence”.
Yep fair... and balanced.
Beautiful picture!
Thanks for taking the time to share it with us!
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