Vets For Freedom National Heroes Tour-- Rolls Into St. Louis
The Vets For Freedom National Heroes Tour rolled into St. Louis this morning.
The Vets for Freedom members were excited about their stops in Missouri. Yesterday, the people from small town Marshall, Missouri shut down the interstate and sent at least 9 police and highway patrol cars to escort the Heroes Tour members into town!
BlackFive has video of this tremendous welcome.
Jim Hanson, Uncle Jimbo, from BlackFive stands in front of the Vets for Freedom coach. Jim is traveling with and reporting on the National Heroes Tour.
Here is a look inside the coach where Vets for Freedom team members were already hard at work early on a Friday morning.
David Bellavia, author of House to House, recipient of the Silver Star, and nominee for the Medal of Honor, gave a terrific talk during breakfast. Dave is a gifted speaker and there are rumors going around that he may be entering the Congressional race in New York soon.
Vets for Freedom Executive Director Pete Hegseth discusses the tremendous turnaround in Iraq since the start of the Bush Surge last year.
Pete predicts that Genereal Petraeus will have outstanding news to give Congress next month:
Pete also talks about the current situation in Basra and "absolutely agrees" with President Bush that the fact that Shiite soldiers are fighting against the Shia Mahdi Army is a great sign for the young democracy.
The Vets For Freedom National Heroes Tour is leaving Missouri and traveling to Nashville, Tennessee later today.
The tour schedule is HERE.
The Vets for Freedom will meet in Washington DC to hold a rally with America’s single largest gathering of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans on April 8, 2008. Participants will gather for a rally and media event and meet with their representatives to express their first hand experiences and explain why it is essential to complete the mission in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Their message is--- AMERICA MUST WIN IN IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN.
Please support these heroes HERE.
UPDATE: George Lauer has loads of photos from the rally in Marshall, Missouri yesterday.
UPDATE 2: The military finds more support from an unlikely place.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 3/28/2008 08:05:00 AM
7 Comments:
American Exceptionalism on tour.
Great posting!
I wrote on exactly this today, with reference to the thousands of peaceful protesters exercising their democratic rights in Baghdad yesterday, and the demonization campaign of the left:
"What we are seeing is exactly as President Bush declared in his Iraq address yesterday, that "sometimes it requires grass-roots politics to get the folks in central government to respond."
This is true, as we can see from the pictures and media reports from the scene. But to acknowledge these facts would be to destroy the main antiwar Democratic talking point: That Iraq's been the greatest foreign policy blunder in history, that the country's falling apart, and that the current outbreak of violence demands nothing less the unconditional withdrawal.
The current military operations against the Mahdi army is troubling, but it is not a setback to the long-term consolidation of the Iraqi democratic regime. The peaceful protests on the Baghdad street attest to that."
It was a great privledge to get to meet you Jim! What an experience that was listening to those men make their case for completing the mission! It was a real "hem of his garment" moment for me. I wish I had gotten more time to chat with you and Jimbo but then again, we'd just be repeating ourselves... Thanks for your support. Every. One. Of. You! It was a proud moment for post 103.
And on a side not....check out this commercial and tell me that they aren't "getting it".
http://patdollard.com/2008/03/the-best-iraqi-tv-commercial-you-will-ever-see/
Jim,
Thanks for highlighting this event. I don't think I would have heard about it otherwise.
It was great to meet you today, and a true privilege to meet and thank some of the men who guard our freedoms.
This is a bit off topic but I'm sure you all remember the Haditha heros, right?
Ms. M. Malkin has the following posted on her site: Case dropped against Haditha defendant Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum
Ms. Malkin comments: "John Murtha was, as they say, unavailable for comment"
Thanks for the post.
I had the honor & privilege of being there this morning as well.
3 very impressive warriors.
-Mike Fox
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Uriah @ 10:19 AM..
thank you, already passed it on!! (thumbsup)
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