Military Families/Soldiers Traveling to DC for National Anti-War March, Rally

[Breeze54]

Military Families Traveling to DC for National Anti-War March, Rally

Jan. 26, 2007

http://www.huntingtonnews.net/national/070126-staff-rally.html

Washington, DC (special to HNN) –

More than 150 military families, members of Military Families Speak Out, are traveling to Washington, D.C. from 31 states to join Saturday’s (Jan. 27) national march and rally organized by United for Peace and Justice.

Military families will be calling on Congress to vote against the upcoming appropriation request that would allow the war in Iraq to continue. Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), an organization of over 3,200 military families who are opposed to the war in Iraq, is the largest organization of military families opposing a war in the history of the United States.

Military families attending the march and rally on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007, will be traveling to Washington from Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, and West Virginia, and will also include MFSO members from Washington, D.C.

MFSO members who are available for interview include families with loved ones currently in Iraq (including those who have had tours of duty extended); those with loved ones who are soon to deploy/re-deploy; those whose loved ones have returned, many who are suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; as well as over 20 Gold Star families (members of MFSO's chapter Gold Star Families Speak Out) whose loved ones died as a result of the war in Iraq (including those killed in action, those killed by “friendly fire” as well as several families whose loved ones returned from Iraq and took their own lives).

On Friday, January 26 and Monday, January 29 MFSO members will be visiting Congressional Offices to tell Senators and Members of Congress to Support Our Troops by De-Funding the War, Bring Our Troops Home Now and Take Care of Them When They Get Here.

For more information about Military Families Speak Out, please visit: www.mfso.org

[Maraya1969]

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[Breeze54]

2. It's great!!!

Tells it like it is!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[SaveAmerica]

3. I wish I were with them!! I bet the groups would be larger if more

people knew about them (the main group and the group going to Washington).

[Breeze54]

4. Lots of people know about MFSO!

Why don't you join?

I'm a member but I can't travel to DC right now. :-(

[SaveAmerica]

5. I will! I'm a military family and this is the first I've heard of them...

I guess we'll have to be with them in spirit. Nothing would have made be happier than to stand in front of the white house and yell at the top of my lungs! Well, having our troops come home and someone with some common sense clean up the mess made in Iraq would make me happier : ). Thanks for posting info about this group.

[Breeze54]

6. You can still go to a local rally today!!

Listing Jan 27th Solidarity Events(s)

http://www.unitedforpeace.org/calendar.php?sortby=&caltype=50

Find one near you!!! ;)

MFSO Chapters http://www.mfso.org/article.php?list=type&type=28