OUR FIELD OF DREAMS: "If you build it, they will come"

[BigBearJohn]

http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php

"Anyway, back to the fantabulistic thing that happened today. We had a rally downtown in Crawford. Then the people caravanned up to Camp Casey. I was told to come down to the point of the triangle to greet them. While I was walking down to the point, I had a great view of Prairie Chapel Road. There was car, after car, after car!!! I started sobbing and I felt like collapsing. The cars kept on coming. It took almost a full hour for them to all get to Camp Casey, it was a miraculous sight to see. It was identical to Field of Dreams. People came from all over the country to be here. We are building a movement and they are coming." ... Cindy Sheehan

WE LOVE YOU CINDY!

[ngGale]

1. It's so beautiful - I'm at a loss for words ...

:patriot:

[finecraft]

2. 'They have money...

It's peace their after'. That's a quote from the end of the movie. How appropriate.

[uppityperson]

3. Kick, article @ Truthout too

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/printer_B081005.shtml

"Today was George Bush's accountability moment, and he lost. Two young ladies from San Diego drove all night to get to the rally and they had to leave tonight to get back home. One of them said: "Wow, we can drive all the way from San Diego just to meet you and he can't even come down to the end of his driveway to meet with you."

George Bush: you work for me. I pay your salary. Come out and talk to me. Anyway, I have a feeling you are about to be fired!!! "

[MelissaB]

4. Kicking for a "Field of Dreams". They are coming...

[BigBearJohn]

5. Her quote gave me chills; they ARE coming

[meganmonkey]

6. This is really it - the ball is rolling

and that bastard at the ranch won't talk to her, which means she'll stay for weeks, and then go to DC and then a million of us will show up there...

GAME ON!!!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Gay Green]

7. This is the accountability moment - Shrub SAID to "Bring It On"

AND WE'VE BROUGHT IT!!!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[moc]

8. It was wonderful, but what I don't understand is why the MSM

is not reporting the outpouring of support. See this story that was in the Dallas Morning News this morning. I was livid because it makes it sound like the counter protest was just as big as the peace rally. I was there, and I KNOW it wasn't. There were at least 600-700 peace supporters, and I only saw 40-50 Bush supporters all day.

I shot off an angry e-mail to the DMN reporter as well as two senior editors. To their credit, they responded to me within an hour, but they still have not given me a credible explanation for their poor reporting of this event.

(By the way, if you look to the left you'll see the big stadium umbrella I'm sitting under. That's my 3yo son in the white t-shirt and baseball cap. He was amusing a lady behind us drinking water out of that bottle and then spewing it up so it bounced off the bill of his cap. :spray: )

[moc]

9. Oops..forgot link to DMN article...

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/washington/stories/081405dnnatcrawford.396d4d0.html

[ailsagirl]

10. Thanks for the report, moc!!

Thanks for taking DMN (sounds like "DAMN") to task.

And welcome to DU!!

:hi:

[Independent_Liberal]

11. Beautiful!

Thanks so much for posting this! I don't know why. It just made me so happy!

Peace, dude.

:)

[BigBearJohn]

13. My pleasure. It touched me ot the core, believe me.

[madmax]

14. I don't cry much over posts and such

but Cindy's report - what she writes and how she writes moved me. The tears are trickling down my cheeks. Thanks for postin BigBearJohn. With so much to read it's good to have DU'ers post something we might miss. :hug:

[BigBearJohn]

15. same to you, my friend

:hug: :hug:

[ailsagirl]

12. A poem for Cindy by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Dirge Without Music)

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains,--but the best is lost.

The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,
They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave,
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

[BigBearJohn]

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