Hundreds rally to support troops

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/5453600.htm ^ | Posted on Sat, Mar. 22, 2003 | By James L. Rosica

[davidosborne]

Amid the hollers and the flag-waving Friday at a "Support Our Troops" rally in the Capitol courtyard, one Tallahassee mother clutched a photograph and quietly represented what "supporting our troops" means for her.

[davidosborne]

passing on word of a successful rally!

[M Kehoe]

Great work.

5.56mm

[RaceBannon]

Dave, are you CONUS right now or overseas??

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[ppaul]

Listen to this Iraqi expressing his anger at a "peace" protester: http://komo1000news.com/audio/kvi_aircheck_031003.mp3

[EllaMinnow]

A big BUMP for your rally - you done good!
I haven't read the newspaper yet, but I heard a radio report right after I left saying there were over 450 people!
I remember the Tallahassee Democrat describing an anti-war rally as "massive" with 500 - we should rate at least a "huge"!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Good job, david!

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Thanks for troop support. 03/16/2003 - armymarinemom:
I got a phone call from the sand box this morning. My son said that news of rallies to support our troops has reached Kuwait. He asked that I thank everyone involved because support from home means the world to our troops.

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[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Beautiful report. Getting signs ready now.

[FITZ]

Bump!

[Giddyupgo]

Rally Bump!

[3D-JOY]

Hooray for the "good guys"!

V Bump

[Bob J]

WAY TO GO TALLAHASSEE!>

[RISU]

I am proud of President George Bush, who in the highest traditions of American Independence, has refused to accept blatant "thugism" that threatens everyone, within America, and without.

The protesters remind me of the young soldier who doesn’t fire his weapon in combat, hoping that the enemy will not shoot him. He only insures that his number will soon be up. This is not "theory", and anyone who has been there will tell you this is true.

It is cowardly not to confront blatant evil when it is so amply demonstrated, as has been the case in IRAQ for so many years. Saddam was an evil monster, willing to kill anyone who had a different view. Even so, America tolerated the mess until it became apparent that it was flashing back upon America itself, and then it became time to act.

I think the "protectors" around the world, and no less those in the United States at this juncture, are inured with "insured socialism", the life of "perfect safety" and "no possible harm" etc. They think because of the education that Liberals have provided children for two generations now that as long as they "follow the rules’ no harm can ever come to them.

This attitude, which is cowardly as well as stupid, creates the very environment in which the Saddam’s of the world, like Stalin, Mao, and Hitler before them, can capture resources and command people in a despotic rule by fear and death.

Let me tell you something. Just because you refuse to shoot your own weapon, gives you no assurance that another will not shoot you!

God bless the President, a President of whom every single American can be proud. President Bush has demonstrated that at least some Americans, the majority of them, can still be counted upon to stand for something.

POSTED BY: RISU Free Republic 3/23.03

[Tunehead54]

Good Job! You need pics ... what's your crowd estimate?

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[davidosborne]

I am alive and well in Tallahassee

[Interesting Times]

Ping for Rally article.

[davidosborne]

Photo Courtesy of: Mike Ewen, Tallahassee Democrat

Three-year-old Amanda Osborne bows her head in prayer at the opening of a "Rally in Tally" for troops overseas Friday morning at the state Capitol in Tallahassee.

[Mama_Bear]

BUMP!

Thank you, FReepers and patriots, for standing tall for America and our military!

[wwjdn]

It is terrible living in California, they are so blind here, they forget the Scud missles already used (banned and lied about), and they ignore that Iraqi citizens are afraid of chemical and biological attacks (and they know Sadam better than we do)...