From the Pentagon to California,
Antiwar protests sweep across the country
From the Commies at ANSWER in my email box today:
*Please forward widely to your email lists, friends and family*
The March starts across the bridge to the Pentagon
To see the report from Saturday’s demo, click this link.
Thirty-seven years ago when anti-war protests began to engulf the United States, the Nixon administration adopted a public posture of utter indifference. Nixon went out of his way to claim that he didn’t notice massive anti-war demonstrations in Washington because he was watching a football game on TV. We learned later from the memoirs of high government officials that the rising tide of anti-war protests between 1968 and 1970 constituted one of the greatest fears for the war makers. The movement spread deep into the rank-and-file of the U.S. military as well, as soldiers, marines and sailors carried out their own protests and acts of resistance. Sometimes the people underestimate their own power, but the ruling establishment knows all too well the consequences of a politicized and mobilized people.
Bush pleads for “patience”
Iraq Veterans Against the War marches alongside
Veterans for Peace and Vietnam Veterans against the war
(Photo: Bill Hackwell)
It is the protests sweeping throughout the United States during the past four days and the prospect of other demonstrations to come that forced Bush to go on the airwaves Monday to “plead for patience.” The Bush administration and the Pentagon high command fear that the protest movement could become a contagion. Politics is dynamic and political apathy, lethargy and inaction can turn into their opposites. The protests of the last days anchored by the march of tens of thousands at the Pentagon raises this specter for the White House and the Pentagon.
This is still an unfulfilled potential, but it can happen.
It will only be the actions of all anti-war organizations and the people that can significantly change the political climate. Many who came to the March on the Pentagon, and the many thousands who tried but couldn’t because of the weather, are making their plans for local demonstrations, protests at local Federal Buildings, city-wide marches and rallies, community protests and vigils, civil disobedience and a range of ongoing actions building anti-war pressure into an irresistible force.
Protest and resistance
Iraq Veterans Against the War and Appeal for Redress,
an anti-war organization of active-duty service members against the war (Photo: Bill Hackwell)
The next step for the ANSWER Coalition and many affiliated organizations and individuals is captured in the slogan, “Protest and Resistance,” encouraging sustained activity including mass action protests on a local level, continued education and mobilization and acts of collective and individual resistance to the war machine. As happened during Vietnam, active-duty soldiers are beginning to participate in both protest and in acts of resistance. National coalitions play a role, as do local organizations as do all of us as individuals both inside and outside the military.
To tell us about your local antiwar activities, click on this link – we will be posting notices of upcoming actions and sending out nation-wide report backs.
Media coverage on the spreading antiwar protests
For a very good round-up of the actions across the United States marking the beginning of the fifth year of the war in Iraq, listen to the coverage from the March 19 edition of “Democracy Now,” hosted by Amy Goodman. (The best way to listen is to right-click, select “Save Target As” and then open the file on your computer). To see the C-SPAN coverage of the March on the Pentagon, go to the C-SPAN homepage, and find “ANSWER Rally Against Iraq War.”
The people repudiate pro-war thugs
The forces of ultra-right racism and militarism tried to “Swift Boat” the Washington protest. Wrapping themselves in American flags, groups like Rolling Thunder pretended to “defend” the Vietnam Memorial from threats that they themselves totally fabricated. (Operation Rolling Thunder was the name given to the U.S. Air Force’s B-52 carpet-bombing of Vietnam between February 1965 and October 1968, in which thousands of Vietnamese civilians died each month.)
On March 17, these pro-war puppets showed their true colors. They shoved elderly people, screamed at parents whose children had been killed in Iraq, yelled racist comments at Arab and Muslim participants, and spit on and ripped signs out of the hands of high school students.
The government’s police stood by and let this happen, despite their oft-repeated claims to be “keeping the peace.” A very strong ANSWER security squad blocked these pro-Bush provocateurs from entering the front of the march. Anti-war protestors were disciplined and focused and refused to be provoked into the confrontation the government was hoping for. The enormous power of the people was felt as all those from around the country fighting to stop the war came together, rendering the sideline fascists irrelevant, and marched united on the Pentagon.
And a great insiders view from Human Events on the DC Rally:
Power to the People
by Jack Langer (more by this author)
Posted 03/19/2007 ET
Updated 03/19/2007 ET
I could tell right away this wasn’t going to be your average Washington D.C. anti-war protest.
For months, the anti-war coalition International A.N.S.W.E.R. had been publicizing its plans to hold a major anti-war rally in the nation’s capital on Saturday, March 17. However, reaching the protest staging site next to the Lincoln Memorial at 11:00 — an hour before the protestors were slated to begin marching to the Pentagon — I found the field nearly empty. Across the street stood several thousand counter-demonstrators, mostly comprised of Vietnam War veterans associated with various biker clubs. Wearing leather jackets emblazoned with organization names like “Rolling Thunder,” “Legacy Vets,” and “Combat Veterans of America Motorcycle Club,” the vets had turned out to stand guard at the Vietnam Wall and other monuments after some sites were desecrated at an anti-war rally in January. The vets were a grizzled, tough-looking lot, and their presence seemed to surprise the handful of Chinese tourists snapping photos in the area.
Across the street, the war protestors were arriving late with their usual collection of Che Guevara banners, placards decrying American imperialism, and bizarre signs denouncing the 9/11 attacks as a government-orchestrated conspiracy. Some tables were set up offering books and pamphlets advocating socialism while a few enterprising capitalists worked the crowd, briskly selling T-shirts commemorating the march. As they arrived, the protestors were entertained by a DJ who, we were informed over the loudspeakers, was from Puerto Rico – “the first country invaded by the U.S.” He played the Edwin Starr protest classic “War (What is it good for?)” several dozen times, it seemed, then launched into James Brown’s “I’m Black and I’m Proud,” as the mostly white crowd sang along.
Eventually, around 15,000 protestors arrived — appearing to me about the same number as attended the January anti-war rally..This must have been a severe disappointment to A.N.S.W.E.R., which had drawn upwards of 100,000 people to previous protests. The poor turnout at this year’s rallies can largely be attributed to a schism between A.N.S.W.E.R. and the other main anti-war coalition, United for Peace and Justice. The two groups used to sponsor these rallies together, but have recently ceased cooperating.
Their dispute stems from two factors. First, there was some squabbling over the amount of time given to each group’s speakers at past rallies — a surprising bit of selfishness from people who drive cars with bumper stickers proclaiming that everything they need to know they learned in kindergarten. Second, there was a disagreement over the Israel-Palestine issue. Apparently, A.N.S.W.E.R.’s position is that the Jews should be driven into the sea, while UPJ, being slightly more moderate, seeks to convince the Jews through peaceful dialogue to throw themselves in.
Before setting off for the Pentagon, the war protestors were addressed by a few speakers. The veterans watched quietly from just across the street until Cindy Sheehan was introduced. Even before she denounced President Bush as “the greatest terrorist in the world,” the mention of Sheehan’s name elicited from the vets a rigorous round of booing the likes of which is rarely heard outside the confines of a Philadelphia Eagles home game.
Finally, the march began. It was a motley collection of organizations and interest groups. The parade was led by a collection of anti-war military veterans, followed by the radical feminists of Code Pink. Then came a group of “drummers” who were really just banging sticks on the bottom of some empty pails, succeeded by the mandatory contingent of masked anarchists. Further back were lots of hippie-throwbacks, a good number of college students, some refugee from an anarchist rodeo twirling a lasso around himself, and a variety of people waving Lebanese and Palestinian flags. There were a few American flags as well, although nearly all of these were defaced with peace signs, political slogans, or sardonic renditions of corporate symbols.
The counter-demonstrators lined the first few hundred yards of the parade route, sometimes on both sides. Waving American flags, the vets gave the marchers a generally good heckling; “Go impress your professors!” was my favorite epithet. Despite their fetish for the right to “dissent,” the war protestors are unaccustomed to opposition, aside perhaps from a lone College Republican or two that might show up with an American flag at a campus protest. But these counter-demonstrators were different. They were combat veterans who still bristle at the memory of being jeered by these kinds of radicals when they returned from Vietnam. The marchers seemed not only nervous, but even ashamed — to prove their patriotism to the vets, they began chanting “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” This was probably the first time that chant has ever been heard at an anti-war rally.
I fell in with the anarchists, since that’s where the action usually is. There were around 100 of them, although the number of face piercings exceeded that by a factor of 10, even with most of their nose rings and tongue rings hidden by masks and bandanas. Their banners proclaimed slogans like “Destroy all government” and “No war but class war.” The vets yelled out to them “Come over here!” and “Show your faces!” Declining either invitation, the anarchists responded by chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!”
But the chant lacked conviction, seeing as the only thing protecting the anarchists from a smackdown by the vets was the line of police officers separating the two sides. I spotted a group of four anarchists carrying an upside down American flag and wondered how far they’d get with it. It turned out to be about 50 yards. Then, a vet managed to infiltrate the parade and snatched the flag from them, causing all four members of the revolutionary vanguard to run scurrying away.
After parading through this gauntlet of counter-protestors, the rest of the march was pretty subdued. I walked back toward a portable loudspeaker surrounded by Palestinian flags. A speaker was leading a chant of “Stop bombing Lebanon!”, which I found strange, since no one is bombing Lebanon. The chanting stopped when the microphone was passed to a Middle Eastern woman whose accent was so thick that no one could understand what they were supposed to be protesting. Finally, they agreed on singing another refrain of “War,” which seemed to be their automatic fallback position for almost any unexpected situation.
We arrived at the Pentagon parking lot, where a DJ was again playing “War.” I couldn’t take the song anymore, so I wandered off in search of the anarchists. I found them at the end of a bridge leading to the Pentagon itself. They were facing a line of police officers in full riot gear, replete with gas masks. “Whose streets? Our streets!” rang out again, but it was pretty clear whose streets these were, since the anarchists weren’t allowed to keep marching forward on them.
The police announced through a bullhorn that they’d use teargas if the protestors didn’t return to the parking lot. In response, a female-looking anarchist in dreadlocks yelled out to me and some other reporters nearby, asking if we’d help get the word out that the police, without cause, had gassed peaceful protestors. “No!” I instinctively yelled back, eliciting some shocked stares from the anarchists. Another anarchist approached us and asked if we’d stand between them and the police to prevent the cops from “attacking” them. He pointed to one elderly female reporter: “You ma’am, if you get in the middle, there’s no way the police will knock you over.” The request caught me off guard — I was unaware that old women are used as human shields anywhere outside of the Middle East.
The group sat down in front of the police to decide what to do. Some people passed out food, at which point most of the anarchists removed their masks and bandanas to eat, then put them back on when they had finished. My respect for this bunch was rapidly declining.
They took a series of votes, decided to leave the bridge to the police, and backed off about 20 yards. Then, in one final act of “resistance” before vacating the bridge, one of them burned an American flag, to the cheers of all the rest. This incident went unreported in all of the mainstream media, despite the presence on the bridge of numerous journalists and photographers.
Walking home, I reflected on what the anti-war movement has degenerated into — a squabbling collection of aging socialists, pro-Palestinian militants, and cowardly anarchists. The Vietnam vets — who were there just to protect our monuments and show support for the troops — had a surprising effect on the protestors. “Fight back! Fight back!” was one of the protestors’ slogans. But it was all talk. When confronted by people who actually fought and bled for their country, the protestors grew sheepish and embarrassed — I would even say humiliated.
I couldn’t help but notice that the anarchists – the supposed hardcore fringe of the movement – waited until they were safely out of range of the veterans to burn a flag. Afraid of the vets, afraid of the cops, they don’t seem to be good for much other than occasionally smashing storefront windows when there’s no one else around.
“Whose streets? Our streets!”, they chanted. Not on Saturday they weren’t.
Too Too Funny, as I said in the video, the Anti War movement is dying…..gasp….struggle…..bleech…..arghhhhh….dead.
Jenny Hatch

UPDATE: March 20th, 2007

Boulder Daily Camera Intern Jeff Cushing – Click on the photo to get to the most recent thread talking about this story of the Boulder Daily Camera not sharing footage of the Gathering of Eagles at the Denver Anti War Rally.
Also, Please note, Mr. Cushing was holding the flyer I printed out about the Gathering of Eagles in his right hand as he taped me. I handed it to him as he began to interview.
His report showed up on the Daily Camera Web Site: Please Go Here to view it.
Dale in Littleton is helping me to organize a bake sale on the CU campus to help raise funds to pay for the Camera Intern to get honest about his reporting. Along with the picture above, he made up a flyer that contained these words:
“Boulder Daily Camera Intern Jeff Cushing at Denver Gathering of Eagles 3/17/2007
I will speak with my intern about his interviewing techniques. I just looked at his final video, and it does not include the footage he took of you or your group. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time or resources required to post the several hours of video that he probably took. Again, I’m sorry that you were offended, and I am planning on speaking with him today about the event. —– Jennifer Falor — Online Editor DailyCamera.com
Again, he is an intern, unpaid at that. The internship is a learning experience and I will speak to him about your issues. —– Jennifer Falor — Online Editor DailyCamera.com
Bake Sale — Teaching and Paying for REQUIRED Balance in media reporting. Taking the time, and providing the resources they say they need.”
Now, I have put plenty of videos up on YOU TUBE, and with the 25 or so minutes of tape this young man took of our Gathering, my guess is it would only take about an hour of my time to put all 25 minutes of the interviews up on the web. So, in that vein, we are going to hold a bake sale at CU to raise funds to help this young man with his “resource” problems.
Jenny Hatch
UPDATE: March 19th, 2007
Here are several observations:
I showed up first about 11:45 AM and as I was walking up to the capitol, a couple of young teens saw my gathering of eagles poster and started heckling me. They knew about us and about our counter.
About twenty people were milling around up on the steps.
Dale from Littleton showed up and we talked and demonstrated together for about fifteen minutes when two bikers showed up. This husband and wife team both help at funerals for our soldiers, protecting them from psycho demonstrators who use funerals to make political hay.
The four of us held hands at about 12:15 and said a prayer together. I asked Heavenly Father to keep us safe, to be with out soldiers and to bless out nation.
Then the four of us just stood together, chatting with anyone who came up to talk to us.
A few minutes after the prayer a self identified daily camera reporter asked if he could interview me for the on line video version of his paper. I said sure and we started in. He quickly realized that we were demonstrating against the demonstrators and his questioning became very strange. I have contacted his editor to tell her of this bizarre behavior on the part of a non-biased reporter.
Here is our email exchange:
First email I sent:
From: Jenny M Hatch [jenny@naturalfamilyco.com’,”,”,”)”>jenny@naturalfamilyco.com]
Sent: Sun 3/18/2007 10:51 AM
To: Falor, Jennifer
Subject: Denver Anti War Rally
Hi,
I met your daily camera reporter yesterday in denver at the anti war rally. I was wondering if he had the guts to put his report up on the internet for everyone to see. I have not noticed any reporting yet.
As a citizen journalist I have found the time to report what I observed, and plan to go into much more depth tomorow in my after action report.
Here is the beginning of my report:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1802519/posts?page=7
Please note post number 8 in that thread. It mentions a little about your reporters interview of me.
Jenny M Hatch
Her Response:
On Sun Mar 18 13:32 , ‘Falor, Jennifer’ sent:
Hi Jenny,
The person in those photos is not a Daily Camera reporter.
I did have a University of Colorado intern at the rally this weekend filming video, but that picture didn’t look like him either. Maybe he had a friend or colleague with him. If it was my intern, I’m sorry if you felt offended or led on. The internship is a learning experience. If you’d like to tell me more about how you felt like you were baited (what kinds of questions did he ask, etc.), I would be happy to talk with him about the situation.
Anyhow, the video will be posted on the Web site for the anniversary of the war, which I think is Tuesday.
-Jennifer Falor
online editor
My response back:
Jennifer,
Here are two identifying photographs of your reporter interviewing me. They are attached.
I asked him who he worked for and he said he was a reporter with the Daily Camera. I don’t care if he was an intern or a reporter, he was representing your paper, and I gave him a copy of our gathering of eagles flyer with my business card stapled to it.
To make things fair for your readers, at least to hear the answers we gave in context with the questions, all we would ask is that he include his questions in the video, so that the viewers themselves can decide if he was baiting or not. The questions felt one sided to me and that is why I stopped being interviewed. However, he talked to two other members of the Gathering of Eagles for quite a while and we would appreciate those videos to be put up as well, with questions included.
A reporter from the Denver Post interviewed us, but nothing appeared in that paper today, despite columns of text, and the nine news team was so close to us I could have tapped them on the shoulder, but they kept their backs turned to us….although we had seven veterans show up to lend support to our Gathering of Eagles.
NPR had this to say about the Washington March:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8976792
Even the reporter from NPR realized the coverage was one sided. Why was that? Thousands of vets and their families counter demo the socialist peace niks and nobody thinks it is news worthy?
I think you guys can do much better, and I would like to see those videos, all of them, posted on your web site, with linkage from your front page to give equal time to the citizens in Colorado who support our president, the troops, and the war.
Jenny
Here are copies of the two photos I sent to her:


I think the “not my reporter” line of argument is hilarious…
After the Hills and I were interviewed the reporter skeedaddled, and soon after the interviews, the moonbats arrived marching up the street. They had started their march at the Halliburton building, and then marched up to the capitol. They were a noisy freak show of a demonstration. I did not take pictures, simply because I don’t want to waste space on my blog and here giving them the time of day.
But we had a whole contingent of reporters taking pictures….except for the Daily Comrade reporter, and a couple of passersby, we were not photographed or videotaped by anyone but ourselves.
A reporter from the Denver Post came down to talk to us for a few minutes, but nothing appeared in sundays paper. I’m curious to see if she prints anything for the anniversary of the war.
When the rest of our group showed up we said the pledge of allegiance together as shown on the video. Then we all talked to a variety of people, mostly young teens, who came down to our group to exchange political views. Our letherneck marine, PitBull, was the most effective debater in my opinion.
At one point a young vet chanced by the demo and he was curious to know what was going on. Once he realized what the anti war people were saying, he went a little nuts, yelling at them, shouting and he was really angry. When he ran up to them to yell some more a whole big group of them came down to talk to him – swearing and shouting. A denver cop in a very large SUV drove right up onto the sidewalk and put his car in between our group and the teens, who frankly looked like they were mostly about 17 years old.
After Pit Bull talked to these kids for about a half hour, I decided it was time to go. Had to attend my daughters soccer game. I asked our group if we could sing the pledge together. So we all belted it out amidst the laughter and guffaws of the socialist youth who were looking on.
Then two vets walked me to my car, and it was over.
Just a final thought. I have gone to these various Denver events for years, and I can easily say that this one was had the least amount of people. No more than 300 total, and after the march, the numbers broke off considerably. As soon as the speakers started voicing the various empowerment messages, people left in droves…walking right past our group….sort of staring at us, and then walking on.
A recognized a few old timers, who have shown up to several of these events….the ones I mentioned before in my organizational thread. They looked drunk like usual, and were some of the most vocal and verbally abusive.
For those who were wondering what the heck Kim Jung Il’s photos and messages were doing at these rallies, I would just ask you if it makes sense to have the great leaders propoganda at an event he pays for himself?
You can bet he and Sadaam both shoved money at these demos hand over fist the past few years…and now that Sadaam is dead, I think we can safely say that North Korea is the big funder of these commie demos in America. How would it be if a few investigative reporters pulled a Lisa Ling on the Anti War movement. Went underground, followed the money train from ANSWER to WORLD WORKERS all the way back to North Korea…and then published it for all the world to see.
The only people I know of who have even suggested a tie are writers at Front Page Magazine.
But the truth will come out as it always does, and the truth will set the world free.
The Denver Post was scratching its head on sundays cover story….wondering where all the people have gone?
I believe many Americans are on the fence right now, confused by all the rhetoric. But I think most Americans will be grateful when the war is over and our side has held the terrorists accountable for their crimes and democracy is flourishing in Iraq and Afganistan.
As I was talking to one person at the rally I suggested the idea that five years from now I would be able to go as a tourist to downtown Baghdad and drive down George Bush boulevard to a wonderful 5 star resort.
His jaw dropped.
Jenny Hatch
UPDATE: March 18th, 2007



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Dales Pictures from the Gathering of Eagles on Flicker
Original Post:

Free Republic Thread on this Gathering:
I just arrived home from the Gathering of Eagles in Denver, and decided to immediately do this first after action report. I’ll add in the rest of the videos and pictures later, but I just had to share this first clip of the Eagles saying the Pledge of Allegiance.

A little girl who was at the Anti-War rally kept staring at us during the rally. I could tell she wanted to join our group. And next thing I knew she was standing next to me with her little rainbow peace sign on UN flag blue cardboard. When the leathernecks showed up to help with our demo I asked if she wanted to join us in the Pledge and she nodded yes. It was really cute. I hope she didn’t get in trouble with her Mom for coming over and demonstrating with us.

Here is the video clip:


Pit bull talking to a group of young people who were self declared socialists. One young man who was wearing a Mao T-Shirt when confronted with the fact of Maos murders claimed that the 40 million dead in China under Maos watch died because of Famines.
I appreciated the strong, yet patient way that pitbull, a leatherneck marine, talked with these young people. I hope he made an impact on their brainwashed and usefully idiotic minds.
Jenny Hatch

UPDATE:
Received another email from my friend Joe Today. He titled it “I got fired today”. Here is what the email said:

HEY TO ALL,

I had my last mission today. I have turned in all my PPE’s (personal protection equipment) and will be packing to go home in four to five days. They are talking about having us home sometime between the 25th to the 30th. The exact dates are not out for security reasons.

It is hard however saying goodbye to all the Iragi IP’s and nationals that I have meet here, I am going home to a great country and a safe place. They are still here fighting for life.

Love to all, and thank you all for your support and prayers
JOJO

Here is the poster I made last night for the Rally:

I just read this thread at Free Republic….truly funny. Especially the line that claimed:
“A handful of pro-war people, some volunteer and some probably paid to be there, will stage a counter-demonstration. This relatively tiny pro-death contingent will garner 50 percent of the media coverage if those on the side of peace do everything right. If a single demonstrator for peace turns violent in any way, that story will take up far more than 50 percent of the news, and that news will hurt the cause of peace and justice.”
Laughing out loud as I read this. Whenever you see those thousands of professional signs calling for Bush’s impeachment etc…at the anti-war rallys you can bet that the person holding it is a rent a mob type who showed up for his twenty bucks and photo op.
Free Republic events are defined by citizen activists, who make their own signs, pay their own way, and organize because they are so galvanized by the events they are supporting, that they cannot sit on their bums and do nothing.
I know that is the case for me. I have probably spent ten hours, about $75.00 of my own money, and will spend two and a half hours on saturday organizing the Denver rally. How many people will show up to counter? I have no idea. I will be thrilled if it is ten, and I would go even if I thought I would be alone demonstrating.
Fact is, conservatives are busy. Busy raising their children and grandchildren, busy serving in their communities and churches, and busy at work.
Those who make up the anti-war crowd, at least the professional demonstrators, are largely those who have abdicated family responsibilities by aborting away the children, and getting lost in “save the animal” and “save the planet” causes. So a couple of hours demonstrating or acting up, especially if free beer is involved, is a fun day at the park for them.
I plan to do a little investigative work this saturday, talking a little more to the anti-people, asking them why they are there and what they hope to achieve by showing up.
As for the true numbers of those who are parts of email groups etc…I have been on the ANSWER email list for the past few weeks to get info about rallys, etc… and before I was on the MoveOn. Web site during the election, also to get updates, etc…I even had a Boulder group from Move ON call me up to ask me to help pass out leaflets. I told the gal who called that I was a Neo-Con and was only on their list to get updates. She laughed and told me she was on the GOP email list for the same reason.
Anyway, don’t assume when they start throwing out numbers at demos and numbers of supporters that everyone who contacts them is supportive of their activities.
Jenny Hatch
Original Post:
I’m dedicating this counter rally to my friend Joe Mangus who is serving his third tour in the middle east. He sent an email this morning titled “I’m going HOOOOME!!” and the email simply said:
Hello to all,
I am in my final week here. I should be home some time between the 28th and the 5th. I will let you know the exact date when I get it. I have to go out four more times then I am done DONE DONE…!!!!!!
Love JOJO

Joe is our adopted uncle. When my son Andrew was born, Joe was one of the volunteer firemen in our town who showed up to help us transfer to the hospital. Through a series of events he ended up in the ambulence with Andy and he later tole me that he “prayed the biggest prayer of my life” for our little boy. As he prayed Andy’s vital signs normalized, and we have always felt and believed that Heavenly Father sent Joe to us to help provide spiritual backup to the situation.
Because of this former relationship with Joe, we have always loved him and considered him a good friend.
A few years ago I did a freep that was covered on the news. 9 news here in Denver. Joe’s Mom Ruth was watching when I was on television talking about counter protesting the moonbat commies in Denver who were against the war. She came up to me after church the next day and asked if that was really me on the news. I told her yes, and then she said that she had talked to Joe in Iraq about what I had done, and she said that when he heard I was supporting him, on the streets of Denver, he burst into tears because it meant so much to him to feel like he was remembered and that people back home were aware of the sacrifices of the soldiers and willing to support them in a vocal way.
After Ruth told me about his reaction to my Freeping, it became very easy for me to find the time to Freep, knowing that Joe was so grateful.
Anyway, he’ll be home in a couple weeks, but I did want to dedicate this post to him for his years of service to this important cause. And I organized the counter on saturday mostly for him and for the soldiers like him who went back over and over and over again.
Jenny Hatch
PS All graphics found on the Free Republic Web Site
Denver Gathering of Eagles Saturday at the Capitol: