A Gathering of Eagles

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'I Fought So That You Can Protest'

By Fred Lucas
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
March 19, 2007

EXCERPT

(CNSNews.com) - As anti-war protesters waved signs on Saturday blaming the United States for the 9/11 attacks and holding American flags upside down, an Iraq war veteran held a sign that said, "I fought in Iraq so you can protest."

Anti-war demonstrators weren't the only ones promoting their views in the nation's capital this weekend. Thousands of others also gathered, in a sea of American flags, braving the cold -- not to demand the U.S. leave Iraq, but to support the mission.

The Gathering of Eagles converged in the Mall to protect America's national monuments.

Addressing the crowd, Angela Lashley, whose son is in Iraq, proclaimed that she represented the majority of mothers.

"I represent the unheard majority," Lashley said, "the moms who are non-activists, the moms who are home packing boxes for their sons."

 

By all means, don't address what you know is the real news.:laugh:

 

Eagles Talons
enough to win the day..........and the future

COL Harry Riley

Mission Accomplished, Goals and Objectives satisfied..........that's the result of Americans gathering in Washington, D.C. on March 17, 2007 to proclaim pride in America, support and love for our warriors in harms way, and protection of the hallowed ground of our fallen guardians of freedom.

Emails, pictures, proclamations, high-five's, a renewed spirit and hope in America is flying across the Internet, blogs, and media from around the world......Eagles (Americans, Vets young and old, active duty warriors, Moms, Dads, sisters, brothers, college and high school students, cadets) landed in Washington, D.C. on St. Patrick's Day in massive numbers, announcing to the anti-war/anti-America hate spewing surrender crowd: get used to it, count on it, accept it, and live with.............EAGLES ARE YOUR FUTURE.

According to estimate reports from the National Park Service, 30,000 Eagles soared into Washington, D.C. on St. Patrick's day to confront and drive the annoying anti-war/ANSWER pests back to their dark hide-outs of deception, distortion, lies, denigration, betrayal, treason, and surrender.

When the Eagle flies and the talons are bared, the vermin scatter, run for cover as did Jane Fonda and others who failed to return to the vomit of her decades old attempt to destroy America.......the anti-war 40 year reunion was akin to a funeral march as compared to the loud birthing joy of Eagles...

Eagles dominated the day while the national media, addicted to the ANSWER anti-war/anti-America rhetoric, bought their distorted message, focused on a few thousand misguided, aimless, American flag dragging, spitting young people, and communist, anti-troop, anti-America speakers while all but ignoring the tens of thousands of Eagles.

If media takes a look at film they will see two drastically different pictures when looking at the anti-war crowd and Gathering of Eagles participants.....one crowd with thousands of proud American flags, the other showed a half dozen and some of them were being dragged on the ground; one crowd with unity, brother and sisterhood, patriotic fervor, the other crowd with aimless direction, vile venom of hate for America...the contrast is clear...which view do you support America?

To say the Gathering of Eagles event in Washington, D.C. was a success would be an understatement....the massive numbers of Eagles is but an indicator of the commitment of American hearts to our nation, our troops, and the fallen warriors that have sacrificed for our freedom. To have been present and experience the joy, and yes pain, the relief, the emotional roller-coaster was beyond explanation...the Gold Star Mothers, the Blue Star Moms and Dads, the Veterans in wheel chairs, tears, hugs,...........in short the anti-war movement set up a reunion for Vietnam Veterans, their widows, spouses, sons and daughters..........

The message of the day was "Welcome Home", "Never Again", "Win the War On Terror" from old warriors, young patriots, widows, spouses, and other Americans who found themselves back in the mud but loving, cherishing, every bit of it, and willing to sacrifice once again for whatever it takes..............to keep America the land of the free and home of the brave.

God bless America, our troops, their families and all Eagles in body and spirit.


Harry Riley, COL, USA, Ret

 

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Gathering of Eagles warm graves of fallen soldiers:

Miracle in Washington

Gathering of Eagles, Generations of Valor

By Judi McLeod

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Yesterday, St. Patrick's Day 2007, a group of ordinary patriots, known nobly as The Gathering of Eagles, achieved something no one else ever could.

Ragtag by nature, Gathering of Eagles' membership includes the wounded, both walking and in wheelchairs, the gratefully and proudly ageing and the living-with-the-memory-of-lost- loved ones, brokenhearted. Some lie awake nights worrying about loved ones still in harm's way, but the one human emotion missing from Gathering of Eagle members is disillusion. All because if there was any chance the touted anti-war protesters were going to desecrate war memorials, then The Gathering of Eagles members were going to be there--no matter from how far away they had to come, no matter in what shape March 17 was to find them in.

SNIP

Even though the counter protest was to be resoundingly successful, only snippets of what took place in Washington was to flicker briefly from yesterday's suppertime news.

But 'These Colors Don't Run', and this is what the troop-loving Move America Forward and the Gathering of Eagles accomplished against all odds.

The hundreds of thousands the anti-war movement promised did not descend on the nation's capital to mark a 40th anniversary destined never be forgotten. They numbered only in the thousands--and part of those thousands included the less protest savvy Other Side! Indeed, Fox News reported that the crowd totaled several thousand with as many from The Gathering of Eagles as from the anti-war crowd.

SNIP

The Gathering of Eagles was in Washington to protect war memorials erected to honor the fallen and in a symbolic show of love for all living troops in harm's way.

One thing for anti-war protesters to hint at desecrating war memorials. One thing for a media to remain silent when soldiers are spit upon. Quite another to meet from the distance of right across the street, the steely-eyed glint of the veterans of real wars.