Pics: OUR Veterans at the DC anti-war protest 10/25/2003

[diamond14]

here's the 'Veterans for Peace' web link...go over and tell these Patriots how much you appreciate their efforts....and donate, too...
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Default.htm

[Room101]

1. I was with them in the SF event........

Where William spoke and I almost cried. This coming from a mocho 24 old man. The Veterans for Peace give me hope, I love them all.

[Tinoire]

2. What??! Veterans for Peace hanging around with Commies?!

God bless them. They've faithfully been with ANSWER for the last 15 years at least.

Thanks for sharing those wonderful photos. They were all over San Francisco also... A beautiful sight!

[diamond14]

3. Shocked, I tell you...I am shocked...hanging around with Marxists

communists, Stalinists, sectarian leftists...AND formenting Jacobinists.... and hanging around with me !!!

that was the most exciting part...these AMERICAN HEROS were hanging around with me.....:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[ConsAreLiars]

4. and associating with Quakers

and liberals and humanitarians and National Council of Churches members and folks with functioning brains! Shocking!

[Tinoire]

11. You two are too funny!

I hope I get to meet you guys some day!

Peace

[jonnyblitz]

12. and they support the killing of our own troops even!! n/t

[diamond14]

5. look how OUR Veterans dissed bush* for his weiner aircraft stunt

http://www.veteransforpeace.org/A_veteran_applauds_HB_101003.htm

Published on Saturday, October 11, 2003 by CommonDreams.org




A Veteran Applauds KB Toys
by Maureen A. Griswold

September 30, 2003

Mr. Michael L. Glazer, President & CEO
KB Toys
100 West Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201

Dear Mr. Glazer,

-snips-

Wow! You’ve made a life-long fan out of me! This may even be a love letter.

Because of cutting my baby teeth in retailing via a family-owned gift shop in San Jose, California, I sit up and notice when exciting gift products hit the market. I’m also a military veteran. Perhaps you’ve already guessed I’m writing about your retailing Blue Box Toys 12” plastic Action Figure “Elite Force Aviator: George W. Bush U.S. President & Naval Aviator.” Good for you! You, like our stellar president, must be a man of integrity, great marketing acumen, and possess a near genius IQ. Bet you and KB Toys are reaping in lots of cash and admiration with this “Top Gun” Action Figure dolled up just like our jet jockey president for his USS Abraham Lincoln extravaganza last May 1st. Mission Accomplished!

For heaven’s sake, why aren’t you putting this product in KB Toys stores? It’s only to be ordered from your website? This patriotic made-in-China spectacle missing from shelves makes it seem “AWOL” -- just like its inspiration was for his tour of duty in the Air National Guard during that annoying Vietnam War. Don’t be chicken(hawk), Michael Glazer! Provide the Dubya Action Figure in your stores for the consuming masses! So what if veterans and other insistent truth-tellers are disgusted and thousands of less patriotic Americans than you and me sign the online petition to boycott you at www.petitiononline.com/kbtoys. The hell with them -- there’s money to be made!


The defect with the Action Figure? Something vital is missing: George W. Bush’s actual military service record. True, our “Deserter in Chief” has yet to voluntarily release his record, he’s amnesic if questioned, but don’t worry -- enough of it has been obtained per the Freedom of Information Act and is posted on the Internet to hang “Top Gun” out to dry. You, me, the whole world -- heck, even Dubya himself -- can go to www.awolbush.com and www.users.cis.net/coldfeet/document.htm and get an eyeful of the real deal. All you have to do, Mr. Glazer, is photocopy the following four documents I’ve enclosed for you and include them in each Dubya Action Figure box.

Because I hold you in such high regard, I’ve also enclosed the official military portrait of my brother, Warrant Officer Scott Craig Griswold, US Army Helicopter Pilot, killed in action January 24, 1969 near Pleiku, Vietnam. Think you might agree Scott was a handsome young man. He’s what a real combat pilot looks like – a non-AWOL, non-deserter pilot. His name is engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC along with those of over 58,000 other young Americans who didn’t go AWOL or desert during that particular war. ----more---


Scott Craig Griswold
WO/WI, U.S. Army Helicopter Pilot
Born: December 23, 1947
Killed in Action: January 24, 1969

[BrotherBuzz]

6. I don't doubt they were there...

and I applaud them, too, but why does the Camera date say 20 8 99? Are they as bad with all these electronic things as I am? Geez, if I sent these over to freeperland they would blame Clinton.

[diamond14]

7. lots of OUR Veterans have trouble with hearing, sight, legs, arms

and I noticed that wrong date too...but I was at the DC March, and saw lots of those guys, walked around in their group...and the beautiful autumn day, the buildings...everything is perfectly the way it was on the GREAT October 25, 2003....

did you see how wolfowitz looked after having 6 or 8 missiles go through his luxury hotel ? and that was minor, likely most of these Veterans were bombed, shelled, shot, shrapnelled, land-mined and more...lucky they can even find a camera at all, let most take photos and set little complex electrical devices...

you could email them about it....I'm sure they already noticed it and are bummed about the error...but the photos are real spectacular !!

[BrotherBuzz]

8. I'm a veteran, too,

and I have all sorts of problems with all these 'little' electronic gadgets. I guess what I was eluding to was the fact that a 'freeper type' might catch the date discrepancy and predictably blame Clinton for the woes of the world, nothing more.

on edit: us old fart veterans don't type and speil well...

[diamond14]

9. yellow wolf.....the chicken-hawk himself, right after the missiles

went through his luxury hotel, the other day in Baghdad...I think he rushed back to DC already....

color-enhanced to show wolf in his 'true' color...




thank-you for your service, BrotherBuzz...it was my great honor and pleasure to walk slowly with the 'best' of all, an 84 year old WWII, POW survivor using a walker....we had a great time...that old POW was smiling along, with THREE younger women holding him up on all sides...he got lots of hugs and kisses too...and was interviewed by a Canadian newsreporter, even had his photo taken....don't matter how damaged...we LOVE all OUR Veterans here at DU....glad to have you connected here...

[BrotherBuzz]

10. I think he rushed to...

the bathroom and changed his drawers first. He's yellow to the core but when I saw him on TV he appeared very pale.

on edit: it appears we are playing an 'edit phone tag' game here. I was just a dumb draftee nothing more and nothing less. That 84 year old is my hero, and I'm sad to say that we lost another WW2 POW survivor (Pacific theater), my neighbor Tony, just last month.

[diamond14]

13. here's one for Tony....may God grab him up right away......

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for POW Tony....job well done....RIP

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