Here's a good piece from Democratic Underground:About an hour ago, wegot a phone call from our friends up at Camp Casey saying that the line of gravemarkers along the road (Arlington West) had been run over. People there said that as they were talking to a few members of the press, a pick-up truck came down the road and stopped at the fork by the edge of the tents. The driver then jumped out and attached a pipe to the undercarriage with a chain and began to "swerve into the line of crosses," said Tammara Rosenleaf from Montana.
"Then we heard the pipe being dragged over the gravemarkers and
the pick-up's wheels crushing them."
Out of the 800 crosses, 500 were knocked down and 100 are irreperable. However, the driver was arrested by the local authorities. This is a prime example of how the Crawford sheriff's
department has helped to protect us and our freedom of speech over the past week
and a half. A big thank you to them!
Regardless of who did this, the fact is that respect for this country's dead is not a partisan issue. Putting up memorials of our country's fallen is not a "liberal" act. It is an American act.
Even a group of counter-protestors from Dallas last week draped flags and
flowers over many of the gravemarkers, and many were moved to tears at the sight
of the long line of dead soldiers. It's too bad that someone else who disagrees
with Cindy felt they needed to wipe out the memory of our fallen in such an
obscene manner.
Now, more than ever, is the time for us to come together. We need your voice and your help to bring America closer to an ideal that all of us hold in our hearts. Cindy Sheehan is bringing us closer to that
ideal and demonstrating its power to change this country.
"Spitting on Vietnam Soldiers" - Running down Crosses Honoring Our
FallenPosted by loudsue
Added to homepage Tue Aug 16th
2005, 12:22 PM ET
I have to admit, I was always skeptical about the stories of soldiers being spit on. I was in college during the anti-war protests of the 60's and 70's, and everyone I knew in the "movement", still honored the soldiers.
A lot of people I knew in the movement wanted to spit on the POLITICIANS that supported letting our soldiers DIE. But everyone I came in contact with felt deep compassion for our soldiers, who were having to give up their youth and innocence in Vietnam. After all, they were our classmates in school, our brothers, our boyfriends, our cousins, our husbands, or our friends. We knew those guys!
But running over CROSSES, put there to HONOR our fallen soldiers, happened last night. It was real. It was recorded.
Crosses honoring dead Republican soldiers, and crosses honoring dead Democratic soldiers...crosses honoring AMERICAN soldiers, got mowed down by a partisan REPUBLICAN-supporting fanatic.
I've known for years that the republican party has been more interested in their republican party support than they were interested in what was good for all of America. They have been putting THE REPUBLICAN party agenda and loyalty ahead of their patriotism, religion, or their loyalty to our country. They have made a great show of flag waving and religion, in order to hide the lie in their hearts: it's not AMERICA they support, it's the idea of "winning" against their American enemies...the "liberals", or the "democrats"....you know: they "bad guys". The "bad guys" that make up ONE HALF (or more) of the country they claim to love.
They don't love our country. And they obviously don't love our troops. They certainly don't honor our fallen soldiers, who have been sent to foreign soil to die for their oil, as a result of the lies that go all the way to the top of their REPUBLICAN
party.
If anyone ever did really spit on a returning vietnam soldier, it
was a deplorable act. An act so stupid, so mindless, so twisted that I have
always had trouble believing the story was true. It would never have made sense
to any of the war protesters I knew....who were people who thought deeply about
the whole thing...college kids, mostly. And learned people. We were feeling
tremendous compassion for our troops, because, like I said; they were our
brothers, our classmates, our boyfriends, relatives. We were hearing the horror
stories about what they went through, in letters, and when they got home. At
least, from the ones who could even talk about it, because often the words would
just stick in their throats, from the pain of it.
But now, we have a group of protesters who yell "We Don't CARE!" about the fallen soldiers, and the people who grieve their deaths. We have some billy-bob-bad-ass that takes a pickup truck, pipe and chain, and mows down Memorial Crosses to our fallen soldiers.
It makes me sad for the loss of our education system, that used to be the envy of the world, that no longer teaches people to THINK critically, rather than be brainwashed easily. It makes me sad for the loss of our empathy and compassion, as a population. Yes, the United States government has done many deplorable things through our history, but much of it was done without the knowledge of the people. So the people generally remained decent, caring human beings.
The likes of Rush Limpballs, and a media ownership structure who chose the dark side, changed all of that culture of decency to a culture of ignorance and hate, for the sake of news marketing.
If the values of running down the Crosses Honoring our Dead Soldiers is what we've come to, it's time this country needs to take a long hard look at ourselves. That
type of introspection can't be done with sound bites.
Our young people in uniform are being asked to die, and they're being asked to kill. And when they die, the Crosses that Honor them are being mowed down for partisan sport. It doesn't take a genius to see that something is terribly wrong here.
It's time for a change in the direction our people are being lead. It's
time for a cultural revolution. It's time to clean our house here at home, and
purge our country from the insanity that would lead someone to mow down the
Crosses that Honor our War Dead.
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