Buckeyes at DC Rally get some run in The Press!!!

[BillORightsMan]

Some snips...

"Patriotism means to be behind your country and troops; it doesn't mean you have to be behind your president," said Davis of Tallmadge .

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"I don't want my kids, or anyone else's kids, out in harm's way for an unnecessary war," said Kim Baragry, 45, of Cuyahoga Falls, who has two children in the Army.

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Walter Nicholes, 81, of Cleveland Heights, a retired public relations executive who served in World War II, compared the current conflict to the Vietnam War, and said both were unjustified.

"The Vietnam War came to an end only when Congress finally began to cut off its money," said Nicholes.

"This is a wake-up call to Congress that they have to stop subsidizing the president's little imperialistic venture."
(Yo, Walt! LITTLE??? -Ed.)
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"Having a demonstration like this sends a negative message to the troops," Kiser, of Anderson Township, outside Cincinnati... (if I'm not mistaken, this is part of CD-2, where Hackett lost. -Ed) ....said as she awaited her flight home. Joy Kiser demanded that her brother's picture be removed from the display because "he would totally disagree with what these people are doing."


(The "display" in question is cleverly worded as "grave-like" in the MSM. Protest organizers had in fact posted photos of the more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq pic here, much like the the Eyes Wide Open exhibit or Cindy's Camp Casey. -Ed.)

"We don't agree with pulling our troops out of Iraq. They need to complete their mission."

(Mission? Mission??? Which one, lady? -Ed.)


at Cleveland.com


:patriot:

[Kukesa]

1. Hooray for those Buckeyes and

Welcome to DU; you'll like it here.

[jen4clark]

2. More Buckeye Press

and some photos.

I took one of 4 buses from Akron/Kent area with the AFSC (American Friends Service Committee) to DC last weekend. We left Kent at midnight Friday night and arrived in DC at 7:30 a.m.

It was a most amazing day and I couldn't get over the diversity of the crowd there. This was a slice of everyman/everywoman America and it was such an inspiring and hopeful feeling to be with that many people who are all awake and have their eyes open to what's happening to our country! Several different people I spoke with estimated the crowd at between 300 - 500,000, and without exception noted that the MSM would report the crowd at 100,000.

The thing that hit me hardest - and yes, I've known for a long time that the MSM is corporate owned and controlled - but the fact that a quarter million people gathered in one city in this country and it didn't generate major coverage was a fresh reminder of how on our own we are.

Here's the piece from the Cleveland Plain Dealer:

Ohioans take part in anti-war rally in Washington

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news/1127640743199561.xml?nnusa&coll=2


and the Akron Beacon Journal:

War protest's message is of hope, Jackson says
Nearly 440 from area ride buses to D.C. rally

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/12737371.htm

and some photos:

http://community.webshots.com/user/jen4clark