Posted on 08/31/2005 8:01:34 PM PDT by StarCMC
Here are the tour stop basics:
Missouri Freepers...Here's the St. Louis stop info I have so far. Please advise if you have anything different/additional from local sources.
Saturday, September 3rd: Bring Them Home Now Rally to Greet the Bus Time: 3:00 p.m Location: Centenary United Methodist Church (Olive & 16th Streets, Downtown St. Louis ) Additional Details: There will be a silent procession to Soldier's Memorial (Chestnut & 14th Streets) immediately following the rally at 4:00 p.m.
Dinner for Bus Tour Participants Time: 5:00 p.m. Location: Centenary United Methodist Church (Public may attend. Bring your own meal.)
Public Forum with Gold Star Families for Peace, Military Families Speak Out and Iraq Veterans Against the War Time: 6:00 p.m. Location: Centenary United Methodist Church (Olive & 16th Streets, Downtown St. Louis)
Sunday, September 4th: Members of the bus tour to speak at various local churches in the morning.
Sunday Candlelight Vigil to Bring Them Home Now Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: St. Xavier (College) Church at Grand & Lindell (Campus of St. Louis University)
Public Forum with Gold Star Families for Peace, Military Families Speak Out and Iraq Veterans Against the War Time: 8:00 p.m. Location: Tegeler Hall, Saint Louis University Campus (3550 Lindell Ave., one-half block east of Grand/College Church)
Other events & actions may also be scheduled. Watch this space for further details...
I will be wearing my TEAM BREADHEAD T-Shirt from WIL - I am challenging other BREADHEADs to join us. The local forum is at www.cornbreadshow.com and I have a thread up in the politics forum.
Mr.S and Bahbah, would you ping the Missouri list here? And maybe the Illinois list, too -- some of them may be close to St. Louis. THANK YOU!!!!
Ok - who's with me. And I'll need to either ride with someone or have someone ride with me -- hubby wouldn't like me travelling downtown alone. :o) I pormise I'll be nice! Pwetty please???
Marking to check back in the morning.
The Cindy Shiite bus should be confiscated for use by the rescue effort in LA/AL/MISS.
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I would like to be there to greet the bus. I will have a 2.5 hour drive ahead of me afterwards and I don't want to make it too late. ANy thoughts? Does anyone know if we need any kind of a permit?
I knew the Jesuits were traitors to their Religion, now I know it is to the Country as well. This is one alumnus of St. Louis U. whom is severing his ties to his treacherous alma mater. I will demand removal from the rolls; the cheesy, leftist magazine is not worth my continued association. I urge all patriotic alumni to do likewise.
One idea is for someone like 'kristinn' to contact the American Legion folks to talk about a Free Republic / American Legion counter protest at each site of the bus tour. The American Legion just wrapped up it's annual convention in Hawaii and one of their press releases condemned the anti-war protests.
DEPARTMENT OF MISSOURI
JOHN R NEGER, COMMANDER
LYNN M DORRELL, ADJUTANT
PO BOX 179
JEFFERSON CITY, MO 65102
PHONE: 573-893-2353
FAX: 573-893-2980
EMAIL: info@missourilegion.org
WEB: http://www.missourilegion.org
DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS
EUGENE THOMPSON, COMMANDER
TERRY L WOODBURN, ADJUTANT
PO BOX 2910
BLOOMINGTON, IL 61702
PHONE: 309-663-0361
FAX: 309-663-5783
EMAIL: hdqs@illegion.org
WEB: http://www.illegion.org
Read this press release from August 23rd, 2005: (Getting the 2.7 million members of the American Legion involved with the counter protests along with local Freepers will overwhelm any 'Cindy' moonbat turnout)
http://www.legion.org/?section=pub_relations&subsection=pr_listreleases&content=pr_press_release&id=303
Legionnaires Condemn War Protests, Pledge Support for President, Troops
HONOLULU, August 23, 2005 - Delegates to the nations largest wartime veterans organization meeting here in national convention today vowed to use whatever means necessary to ensure the united support of the American people for our troops and the global war on terrorism.
Warriors, above all other people, pray for peace, for they must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war, said Thomas P. Cadmus, national commander of The American Legion referring to Gen. Douglas MacArthurs quote. We had hoped that the lessons learned from the Vietnam War would be clear to our fellow citizens: public protests against the war here at home while our young men and women are in harms way on the other side of the globe only provide aid and comfort to our enemies. We understand that the terrorists they are engaging there would slit the throats of every American, adult and child, if they could.
The resolution passed unanimously by 4,000 delegates to the annual event states: The American Legion fully supports the President of the United States, the United States Congress and the men, women, and leadership of our armed forces as they are engaged in the global war on terrorism.
For many of us, the visions of Jane Fonda glibly spouting anti-American messages with the North Vietnamese and protestors denouncing our own forces four decades ago is forever etched in our memories, Cadmus said. We must never let that happen again. I assure you, The American Legion will stand against anyone and any group that would demoralize our troops, or worse, endanger their lives by encouraging terrorists to continue their cowardly attacks against freedom loving peoples.
The measure recognizes that the global war on terrorism is as deadly as any war in which the United States has been previously engaged and that the President and Congress did authorize military actions in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
No one respects the right to protest more than one who has fought for it, but we hope that Americans will present their views in correspondence to their elected officials rather than by public media events guaranteed to be picked up and used as tools of encouragement by our enemies, Cadmus said. It would be tragic if the freedoms our veterans fought so valiantly to protect would be used against their successors today as they battle terrorists bent on our destruction.
Lets not repeat the mistakes of our past, he added. I urge all Americans to rally around our armed forces and remember our fellow Americans who were viciously murdered on Sept. 11, 2001. We must commit ourselves to stand united together to defeat terrorism once and forever.
The 2.7 million-member American Legion is the nations largest veterans organization.
I find it puzzling that this "church" would host an event sponsored by leftist, anti-Christian groups. I guess these methodists are not really Christians. I didn't realize that before.
bumpig up MO FREEP!!
Can you be here?
That would be fantastic!!!
Thank you Queenie!
I'm sure someone will get a thread up about it later.
Thank you Mr. Tonkin.
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