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Speakers please rehearse before speaking and keep remarks a bit more succinct; very hot and some older folks were having a tough time. Also, peace signs at parking lot entrance were Mercedes symbols, not peace signs. :-)
I attended the walk along with my sister and two friends. We were proud to be a part of the gathering! Felt good. Felt alive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVTuTWe75yA
Peace,
Suzy
That was my dad's Army jacket from Vietnam.
Great story!
Thanks for defusing some of the right-wing nutjobs on the Planet comments.
Jim
Peace.
You're missing the big show -- all the comments (over 100 so far) are at http://www.michaelmoore.com and YouTube...
Have a really, really big day
I bet it disgusts you what the "liberals" do. Just watch out, cause you may be next.
From the comments I've been seeing here around the web, it sounds like it's a widely held presumption that small, let's say less than 1,000, peace rallies and organized protests are composed of those who are unemployed, or marginalized or never served in the military.
Perhaps, even all three.
However, besides being a hasty conclusion in general, a tread worn urban myth historically, in the present case it is without a doubt a flat out gross mischaracterization.
Maybe you haven't read this article very closely, or viewed the ample video and photos available, because if you had you would plainly see that those definitions simply do not apply. Nor do the claims by those who were not there, or say they drove by, that there were only 50-75 in attendance.
Included among the 250 plus who attended and marched: numerous ex-vets (at least 3-5 that identified themselves in various news reports, one of whom spoke, Nick Rowley), and event organizer, veteran and Republican Capt. Walt Farmer.
Not to mention, the inimitable Capt. Bob Morris, another registered Republican.
Besides these folks...also in attendance were many, many retirees, a current elected state official, many families, and at least one practicing medical doctor and attorney.
Also, everyone appeared to be gainfully employed -- arriving in late model cars and clean clothes. This part of Wyoming is too expensive and cold too often to support any kind of large homeless or unemployed population.
Teton County probably has at most 25 homeless people on any given day, maybe 50 in the summer. So, even if all of them attended they would be a minority. But they would have also had to find a way out to the country, because the rally was at least 6 miles from town.
While you are certainly entitled to your opinion, and it is a respectable view to support the troops—which is without a doubt patriotic—it is just factually inaccurate to characterize this rally as being composed of those who are disaffected, unemployed pacifists.
Sometimes things are more complex than they may appear on a superficial viewing.
And if this rally were anything else than how it has been described and classified by those who reported on it, I assure you I would have noted that here.
I am a Wyomingite, born and raised. I am also a military spouse. There are so many opinions out there on what is going on in Iraq. Was it justified, or wasn't it? Are our voices truly being heard by our Senators elected into office?
Regardless of what the answers are on my questions, the fact of the matter is that there is a war going on and many lives are being taken and so many families and friends that it is affecting.
Now, do I truly believe we should be in Iraq? Not necessarily, but I support my husband and all of the US Forces that we have serving our country to give ALL the protesters the right to freedom of speech.
Every person is always going to have a different opinion on things because we are human and that's just the way it is and that is one of the reasons that I am proud to be an American.
Now those of you that don't believe in the war in Iraq, need to take it to the people that we voted into office to voice our opinion. Cheney can't stop the war by himself. If you want to do something, speak up to the right people.
It's okay to be against the war, but remember, there are people dying to give you that right. Support them, they are doing a job for us. If they aren't supported, this country will go down the drain (even worse) in a minute.
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Frank
<A >Foreclosure lawyer</A>