Today's Gathering of Eagles was a great success!  I hardly know where to begin.  There were tons of vets in attendance - so many that the protesters were intimidated by them.  We were standing in line waiting to go into the Wall, and anti-war protesters were passing by us heading east.  To a man (or woman) they were silent and carried their protest signs pointed down toward the ground and facing in so no one could see what they said.  I think they were stunned and intimidated by the size of the crowd of veterans!

Around every memorial, the WWII memorial, the Korean War Memorial, the Wall, the three grunts and the nurses, vets were standing guard.  Silent and respectful, they made it very obvious that no one was going to be defacing our memorials today.  The protesters left their show and headed toward the Pentagon like sheep - no shouting, no braggadocio, no false bravado.  And every step they took they had to face proud vets, some disabled, some not, standing like a gauntlet of honor through which the cowards had to pass.  And pass they did, quietly and quickly.  They knew they were outnumbered.  They knew they were outclassed.  They knew they were beaten.

One of the highlights of the day was a WWII vet who spoke briefly.  It was very cold today in Washington, cloudy and windy, a blustery day.  He said he hadn't been this cold since March of 1945, when he was in some forest in Germany (don't recall the name) killing the enemy.  For me, that said it all.  The communists who put these anti-war marches together have no concept of the price of freedom.  They don't understand that sometimes it's necessary to kill the enemy so that men can be free.  But the vets understood.  And they cheered.  Loudly.

It was a good day to be a vet.  A good day to be welcomed home.  The Vietnam Vets are a force to be reckoned with, and they will change the course of this nation.  Never again will we allow the cowards an uncontested platform to spread their lies.  Crossposted at Media Lies

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Contributed by antimedia on March 17, 2007 at 05:36 PM in Antimedia, Gathering of Eagles | Permalink

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