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02-28-2007, 09:43 PM
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Several veterans groups plan to counter an anti-war rally next month in Washington, DC, by protecting a monument to Vietnam veterans from vandalism by anti-war protestors. Members of the radical anti-war group International Answer plan to march from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to the Pentagon on March 17 to demand an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
A number of veterans groups, including the Military Order of the Purple Heart and the POW-MIA organization Rolling Thunder, will be holding a rally to protect the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, also known as "the Wall." One of the rally organizers, retired Navy Captain Larry Bailey with the group Gathering of Eagles, says the veterans will make sure anti-war activists do not "deface, desecrate, or dishonor" the Memorial, as they did the Capitol building last month.
This time, anti-war protest leaders Jane Fonda and Cindy Sheehan will not have the field to themselves, Bailey says. "They're going to have competition," he insists. "In the case of Jane Fonda, after 40 years, the Vietnam veterans are finally going to be able to confront her, almost literally face to face, and [say] that she does not have the playing field to herself, and she has been wrong all along, and she's especially wrong now."
According to the Gathering of Eagles spokesman, the veterans will voice opposition to "efforts by the radical left to cause America to back down in Iraq and Afghanistan." He says the group first came together out of a "heartfelt desire" to protect the Vietnam Veterans Memorial "because that's all we've got, really, to remember our slain friends with.
"And having seen what Jane Fonda's group did last month on the Capitol steps, spray-painting the capital," Bailey continues, "we got to thinking, 'What if they did this to the Vietnam Wall?'" He says the protesters' anti-war rally is designed to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, but his group plans to hold its own rally to ensure that the revered Vietnam memorial is not vandalized.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/02/vets_to_guard_against_vandalis.php
Several veterans groups plan to counter an anti-war rally next month in Washington, DC, by protecting a monument to Vietnam veterans from vandalism by anti-war protestors. Members of the radical anti-war group International Answer plan to march from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to the Pentagon on March 17 to demand an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
A number of veterans groups, including the Military Order of the Purple Heart and the POW-MIA organization Rolling Thunder, will be holding a rally to protect the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, also known as "the Wall." One of the rally organizers, retired Navy Captain Larry Bailey with the group Gathering of Eagles, says the veterans will make sure anti-war activists do not "deface, desecrate, or dishonor" the Memorial, as they did the Capitol building last month.
This time, anti-war protest leaders Jane Fonda and Cindy Sheehan will not have the field to themselves, Bailey says. "They're going to have competition," he insists. "In the case of Jane Fonda, after 40 years, the Vietnam veterans are finally going to be able to confront her, almost literally face to face, and [say] that she does not have the playing field to herself, and she has been wrong all along, and she's especially wrong now."
According to the Gathering of Eagles spokesman, the veterans will voice opposition to "efforts by the radical left to cause America to back down in Iraq and Afghanistan." He says the group first came together out of a "heartfelt desire" to protect the Vietnam Veterans Memorial "because that's all we've got, really, to remember our slain friends with.
"And having seen what Jane Fonda's group did last month on the Capitol steps, spray-painting the capital," Bailey continues, "we got to thinking, 'What if they did this to the Vietnam Wall?'" He says the protesters' anti-war rally is designed to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, but his group plans to hold its own rally to ensure that the revered Vietnam memorial is not vandalized.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/02/vets_to_guard_against_vandalis.php