Support the Troops Rally - Gathering of Eagles

For those of you that missed it, here's just one of the great speakers we watched.

ANSWER infiltrated!

Remember, that photographer you're tormenting at the "peace" march, might be on your side.....

Check out Age of Hooper and just keep scrolling. He has great pics and, dare I say it, VIDEO!

Cargosquid and the Loli Girls at GOE3

In his Gathering of Eagles report CargoSquid mentioned standing guard at the Navy Memorial while most of us went up to the Capitol building.

And now for the rest of the story.....

photo by kalisafish

After admiring the koi pond in Teaism we headed out to the Navy Memorial. It really is a nice place. I think the United Conservatives of Virginia were on guard duty. They were very protective of the Lone Sailor statue. I guess they were on edge because of the Anti-War protesters. Some of the lolis were shooed away from the statue and lectured about it being a sacred symbol. Which was a little bit of a downer. One of their members took some pictures of us. There were a lot of curious people on our journey.

Army Mom Does Hippy Toss At GOE3

We spent a lot of time staring at these bikes
while waiting for the Hippy Toss issue to resolve.
Smith and Wesson even.

Gathering of Eagles III last Saturday, September 15th, was a day of adventure, inspiration and, thanks to the commie protesters, disgust.

The last, and one of the best events of the day, occurred as f22strike, USMCPOP, devildog6671 and I rounded a corner at the foot of our nation's Capitol building. We had just left the fringes of a rather bloody melee, and figured it was time to head south.

Suddenly, we saw Army Mom, who looked like she was getting ready to lunge at a hippy man standing in the middle of a tall bed of canna lilies. Hippy man was yelling at her and vice versa.

As we got closer, we saw a hippy woman laying flat on her back, hollering to beat the band. Her white-bearded, hippy husband was yelling at Army Mom, "Go ahead, hit her! Hit her! Hit her!" What a knight in shining armor, eh?

Well, the hippy lady in the dirt kept yelling, "It hurts! I can't get up!" until a bystander informed hippy man that he was standing on his wife's foot. Tooooo funny.

It turns out, that this couple had been walking up to gold star moms and other military families throughout the day, screaming obscenities in their faces and trying to get shoved around, attempting to get these good people arrested. Many of the intended victims were identifiable as having lost loved ones in the war because of their t-shirts.

The moonbat had walked up to the Army Mom from St. Louis, got in her face and started screaming. When she called Army Mom, a "m***** f****** terrorist", Army Mom gave her a shove so hard, she went flying backwards into the flower bed.

You see, Army Mom has a son who was wounded over a year ago and is still in hospital.

The police came, hippy couple wanted to press assault charge, Army Mom said, ok, she would press counter-charge of verbal assault and the hippy couple went away leaving a large dent in the flower bed and a ghostly glimmer of slime along the sidewalk.

I'm putting Army Mom and her gracious friend, Marine Mom from St. Louis on the heroes list.

The real meaning of the ANSWER march

From Roger L. Simon, comes a article that raises a good point.

Rinky Dink Antiwar Demonstrations

The propagandists at Xinhua say there were "tens of thousands" at the DC antiwar demonstration yesterday. The VOA says more like five thousand. However many people you agree showed up - the AP says "several" thousand - the number is pretty pathetic. In a country of three hundred million, if you can't muster up even fifty thousand people against a war, the event is basically meaningless, barely even news. You could probably drum up more than that for fly-fisherman's rights.
What's interesting is why this low turnout when, according to many polls, the public is supposedly massively against the war. If they are so antiwar, they certainly are pretty apathetic about it.

Another point is the question, "Does counter-protesting give the antiwar crowd publicity on what would otherwise be a non-event?"

Read the whole thing.

GOE Fight Song! - The Gauntlet

I've found the fight song for the GOE!

Dropkick Murphys

"The Gauntlet"

Well I just got back from a break in the fight
I was weighing in heavy but still feeling alright
all I hear in the distance - mines and shells
here come the sirens wailing another attack to be repelled

Do you think we're gonna make it?
I don't know unless we try
you could sit here scared to move
or we could take them by surprise
it's submission that they want
it's surrender that they need
when we're doing it their way
their aims will be achieved

They're gonna come when you're not ready
when you're not too well-prepared
they're gonna prey upon your weakness
no man's soul is ever spared
you've got to stand up, yeah, and fight them
show them what it's all about
this man is not for sale
there will be no backing down.

[Chorus:]
Stand up and fight and I'll stand up with you
We shall succeed,
Stand up and fight and I'll stand up with you

They won't get me, they won't get me
though they never cease to try
they won't get me, they won't get me
I would rather fight and die
they won't get me, they won't get me
well my friend will they get you?
when they get you, when they get you
tell me what you're gonna do?

Do you think we're gonna make it?
I don't know unless we try
you could sit here scared to move
or we could take them by surprise
it's submission that they want
it's surrender that they need
when we're doing it their way
their aims will be achieved.

They're gonna come when you're not ready
when you're not too well-prepared
they're gonna prey upon your weakness
no man's soul is ever spared
you've got to stand up, yeah, and fight them
show them what it's all about
this man is not for sale
there will be no backing down.

[Chorus: x2]
Stand up and fight and I'll stand up with you
We shall succeed
Stand up and fight and I'll stand up with you