The Day We Took Our Country Back -- Part 2
Contributed by Bill Faith
This Is The Dawning Of The Age Of The Eagle. Aquarius can kiss my ass.
(This post will remain at the top of the site all day. Original timestamp 2007.03.19.00:29)
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"Let us make it clear, we've all come here
To defend our long-dead brothers;
And understand you ain't layin' a hand
On our Wall you leftie mothers."
(Click here to listen to the .mp3) The Age Of The Eagle
By Kit Jarrell of Euphoric Reality
In every life there are moments that define us. They tell us in no uncertain terms who we are, what we believe in our souls, and what we are willing to die for.
For those of us who have worn the uniform of our great nation, these moments have stirred in our hearts before–often misunderstood by those who could never understand what it means to pledge your very life to protect another.
But even more rare is the moment that lets us define ourselves, that lets us show the world who we are, what we believe in our souls…and what we are still willing to die for.
March 17, 2007 will be remembered as one of those moments. ...
Do read the whole thing, won't you?
*** Miracle in Washington
By Judi McLeod
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Canada Free Press
Yesterday, St. Patrick’s Day 2007, a group of ordinary patriots, known nobly as The Gathering of Eagles, achieved something no one else ever could.
Ragtag by nature, Gathering of Eagles’ membership includes the wounded, both walking and in wheelchairs, the gratefully and proudly ageing and the living-with-the-memory-of-lost-loved ones, brokenhearted. Some lie awake nights worrying about loved ones still in harm’s way, but the one human emotion missing from Gathering of Eagle members is disillusion. All because if there was any chance the touted anti-war protesters were going to desecrate war memorials, then The Gathering of Eagles members were going to be there–no matter from how far away they had to come, no matter in what shape March 17 was to find them in....
Mother Nature brought the dawning of a cold day with proof from the age-old adage that “March wind (is) colder than snow.”
Even though the counter protest was to be resoundingly successful, only snippets of what took place in Washington was to flicker briefly from yesterday’s suppertime news.
But ‘These Colors Don’t Run’, and this is what the troop-loving Move America Forward and the Gathering of Eagles accomplished against all odds.
The hundreds of thousands the anti-war movement promised did not descend on the nation’s capital to mark a 40th anniversary destined never be forgotten. They numbered only in the thousands–and part of those thousands included the less protest savvy Other Side! Indeed, Fox News reported that the crowd totaled several thousand with as many from The Gathering of Eagles as from the anti-war crowd.
Jane Fonda was a no show. Not being able to count on Al Gore’s global warming, perhaps she thought she’d get her tinted feathers wet.
Big-talking Hollywood celebrities left Cindy Sheehan out in the cold on her own.
Yesterday’s sea change was bound to usher in a new chapter in history. The anti-war protesters were in Washington trying to sustain a 40-year-old memory with tired, old chants like the standby “Impeach Bush” one.
The Gathering of Eagles was in Washington to protect war memorials erected to honor the fallen and in a symbolic show of love for all living troops in harm’s way....
When history is written, March 17th, 2007 will at long last eclipse March 17, 1967, as the day when soldiers in faraway Iraq and Afghanistan knew for certain, no matter what real time saw them doing, love and respect await their safe return. The day when it was proven to a watching world that Washington war memorials stand for what they always stood for, time immemorial, the day when the graves of fallen American soldiers the world were warmer.
Read the whole thing.
*** Mainstream Media Misreporting on GOE
As those who were there know, the reporting by the mainstream media on the Gathering of Eagles has been mostly ficticious and at times downright laughable.
For the record, here are the leading print media outlets’ reporting on our numbers. ...
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*** What they didn't show you on TV
By Michelle Malkin
As promised, our full video report on The Gathering of Eagles:
Many highlights there, but take special note of the face-off at the 6:00 minute mark. As you can see, we spent most of the day covering the march on the Eagles' side of the fence. Why? Because almost all of the news camera crews we spotted--the ones that bothered to show up, that is--gathered around Cindy Sheehan and the anti-war freak show and then left. We didn't see any of them covering the long lines of Eagles waiting to get through security to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Didn't see them covering the speeches and performances by the vets and pro-military activists. Reporters mingled comfortably on the moonbat side, except to shoot drive-by photos casting pro-troops counterprotesters in a negative light. Bloggers continue to rip old media whitewashing of the historic event:
Newsbusters
GoE
HA thread
Cinnamon Stillwell: This may mark the beginning of the end of mainstream America's complacency in the face of a vastly outnumbered but vocal (and overreported) antiwar movement whose platform spells disaster for the United States and Iraq.
Never again will America's brave warriors and their cause be abandoned and the people our country has pledged to liberate be left to perish at the hands of tyrants. Those days are most definitely over.
Bloggers also continue to report on the ugly behavior and background of the surrender lobbyists: ...
*** Gathering of Eagles photo essay;
Update: Fox News interviews Kristinn Taylor about GoE
Bryan Preston
Michelle and I spent Saturday morning among patriots and moonbats. Here are a few of the things we saw. ...
There are lots more where that came from. Click here.
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Email from R J Del Vecchio: Attached are some images you can use with my report [Defending The Wall -- BF], if you wish.
"provoking" is of one of the moonbats (with the yellow thing on his back) who came across the street to deliberately walk down the line of vets with his big sign, screaming at them and trying to get someone to hit him. Everybody stayed in amazing control, and finally the cops made the jerk go back across the street. After that they stopped looking at the vets, and in "watching" you see every single cop is looking only at the antiwar side.
More images in a bit...
Del
Provoking:  Watching: 
Click the thumbnails, then click the image that comes up, to see them larger.
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In a separate mail Del writes: 
A montage of the antiwar menagerie of signs, kind of lets you know who is involved.
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I just posted Old War Dog Arch Arthur's After Action Report here. You'll enjoy it.
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Michael in MI has a great "Go read these GoE posts" roundup here. Don't miss it.
The Big Dog's post here is also quite worth a visit.
*** Max Friedman: Identifying the Anti-War Protesters
Email from R J Del Vecchio: This is a letter to the editor of the Washington Post, with absolutely wonderful information on the leaders of the "antiwar" peaceniks. Everyone in the country should know who these people really are. Please read this over and pass it on.
Del
I emailed back and learned that Del got this straight from Max and has his permission to pass it along:
Continue reading "Max Friedman: Identifying the Anti-War Protesters"
*** Arch Arthur: "Protesters, for, against war, face off"
Another letter to the editor about biased media coverage of the Gathering of Eagles, this one from our next-to-newest Old War Dog:
Continue reading "Arch Arthur: "Protesters, for, against war, face off""
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