ATTENTION... All DU vets... check this out... Vets not allowed to

WannaJumpMyScooter

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Wed Nov-12-03 10:12 PM
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ATTENTION... All DU vets... check this out... Vets not allowed to

march in Veterans Day parade, due to anti Iraq stance!

Can you believe this crap? And it was at the request of the POLICE? WTF?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=216210&mesg_id=216210

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Rabrrrrrr

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Wed Nov-12-03 10:13 PM
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1. Pure bullshit.

(and I don't mean that I think the story is false, I mean pulling vetys out of a vet parade, because they are against a war, is bullshit).

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DuctapeFatwa

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Wed Nov-12-03 10:21 PM
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2. In 1973, there was a march to protest the inauguration of Nixon

It was a big march, by all accounts, one of those that even the police who are paid to underreport protest crowds, just gave up and acknowledged it was too big to accurately count.

People who were there tell of a moment early on, when all the people standing by the Washington monument looked up, and coming toward them, as far as the eye could see, was this SEA of people, in wheelchairs, on crutches, limping on new prosthetic legs, even some on wheeled cots, IV's and all, they kept coming, and coming, the VVAW - Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

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WannaJumpMyScooter

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Wed Nov-12-03 10:24 PM
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3. I was there, and in uniform... got interviewed by NIS a few days

later. Coincidence? I think not.

It was a very moving moment, one that I will never forget.

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DuctapeFatwa

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Wed Nov-12-03 10:41 PM
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4. Maybe that's why they don't want them this time

Another moving moment was when all those flower children and Black Panthers and SDS "guards" and Socialist Workers and everything else you can think of that is not known for its love of militaria, parted like the Red Sea to let them pass, and SALUTED.

It might be hard to keep that off TV, and Lord knows, the regime doesn't want people to see recently wounded vets in large numbers under a peace banner :)

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Don_G

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Wed Nov-12-03 10:45 PM
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5. ShrubCo Can't Afford A Moving Moment

Until after November 2004 and he won't like it even then.

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DemoTex

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Wed Nov-12-03 11:05 PM
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6. This is much worse than the Nixon regime.

I was at head-cracking protest as a new VVAW dues-paying member (a year in the 'Nam) in 1972. At least we were there. The neo-Nazis have learned well. Keep the rabble away, especially if they have direct knowledge! That's us. We know war. The Bu$h cabal does not. Fuck them and defeat them!

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CanuckAmok

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Wed Nov-12-03 11:10 PM
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7. Veterans for Nuclear Disarmament aren't allowed to march in...

the Royal Canadian Legion-sanctioned Remembrance Day Ceremonies, but they always form and march immediately behind the parade (to wild applause, I might add...)

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WannaJumpMyScooter

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Wed Nov-12-03 11:50 PM
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8. kick... please, keep this on top for a while so everyone

can see it.

Thanks

I am so pissed off, I am seeing red.

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WannaJumpMyScooter

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Thu Nov-13-03 04:20 PM
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9. kick again

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oneighty

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Thu Nov-13-03 04:39 PM
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10. As a Vietnam war protesting VFW

member of our local VFW club years ago I was declared "Not Welcome".

Lot of the bar room warriors even at the VFW never saw action, but they are all for war and killing.

180

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Rabrrrrrr

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Thu Nov-13-03 08:16 PM
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11. Worth another kick

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