Eagles Up! (Updated)
Contributed by Bill Faith
This post will remain at the top of the site through Saturday 2007.09.15. Scroll down for possible newer content. I'll do my best to keep this post up to date as things develop through the day. If you missed Of Eagles and Chickens Monday now's an excellent time to read it and get in the proper frame of mind. Photoblogging Gathering of Eagles 3: Us and Them
Michelle Malkin
I can’t tell you how proud and honored I was to meet so many Eagles out on the streets of D.C. today. We’re just beginning to wade through our photos and video, but the difference could not be starker between the Eagles and the ANSWER mob. Here’s a quick compare-and-contrast between us and them. ...
*** Protests and Counter-Protests in DC
John Hinderaker
Anti-war, anti-troop and anti-American protesters turned out in Washington today, led by International ANSWER, a Communist front organization. The turnout doesn't seem to have been very impressive; news accounts say there were "thousands" of protesters. The yellow and black signs are characteristic of International ANSWER: ...
*** War protesters, supporters to converge in D.C.
WASHINGTON - Thousands of opponents and supporters of the U.S. presence in Iraq will converge Saturday in the nation's capital for a day of demonstrations. ...
*** Liveblogging GOE: Hour one;
Update: 1:30pm Eastern;
Update: 5:00pm Eastern “Fuck Bush,” “Oink Oink!”;
GOE leader Col. Harry Riley: “We’re not going away.”
Michelle Malkin
The Gathering of Eagles are on Madison Ave. and 7th in front of the Capitol. Melanie Morgan of Move America Foward and Kristinn Taylor of FreeRepublic.com have just addressed a growing crowd. A priest ends his invocation: “Surrender is not a word in our vocabulary.”
Larry Bailey and Chris Hill of Gathering of Eagles have welcomed the activists. Hill: “What happened in Vietnam will not happen to this generation.” Hill mentions a 9/11 survivor who brought a large American flag flying on stage. “That’s what we fight for.” ...
*** Victory Caucus meets Gathering of Eagles
N.Z. Bear
I'm pleased to be on site at the Gathering of Eagles rally on the mall in DC. Great folks and a great crowd. Here's a few quick photos that I've taken; check back for more throughout the day...
*** DC Gathering Has Higher Purpose
Col. Harry G. Riley
The arrangements are nearly complete: the word is out and the streets of Washington, D.C. will be lined with patriots Saturday, protecting our monuments from further defacement, supporting our troops, and demanding victory, not surrender, in the War on Terror. ...
*** Eagles Landing
Col. George "Bud" Day (H/T: John Hinderaker)
On September 15, in a scene that America’s enemies are hoping mimics similar events in the 60s and 70s, a coalition of anti-American amateur anarchists will descend on the nation’s capital attempting to convince the US Congress to surrender in the War on Terror.
They won’t know even know to whom they’d like us to surrender, nor what the terms of such a travesty might be. But their ilk didn’t care in the 70s and the new crowd doesn’t care now.
But this time, also flocking to the Capitol with a far greater sense of purpose, direction and duty, will be the Eagles: America’s veterans and pro-troop patriots. Just as they did on March 17, the Eagles again will deflect the hatred hurled at our military, the attempts to deface our memorials, and the political efforts to bully a shaky Congress into giving away the successes that have been earned through more than two centuries of democracy. ...
Do read the whole thing, folks. Learn some history from a great man.
*** Photoblogging: The Gathering of Eagles at Walter Reed
Michelle Malkin
The Eagles joined Free Republic.com members at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center for the weekly Friday “Freep” tonight to show support for the troops. Bryan Preston and I were there to join in, meet fellow Eagles, and film the gathering for a future Hot Air special (see our video report on the first Gathering of Eagles in March here). ...
Read the whole thing, and don't forget to check out the Eagles Up site if you haven't yet.
*** Gathering of Eagles III: Get ready
Michelle Malkin
... And from Eagles Up, another detailed map (click for full-size): ...
*** Hot Air video: Get ready for Gathering of Eagles III
Bryan Preston
The original Gathering of Eagles was organized to protect US war memorials that radicals at ANSWER and other leftist groups had threatened to desecrate. The third Gathering of Eagles is this weekend in Washington. Michelle interviews N.Z. Bear of The Victory Caucus about the Gathering, and how you can get involved. [video link]
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