[BARC-List] [Fwd: Stand Up for America Rally Speech]

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This of way off topic!!!

Enough said!!

73 

Walter


In a message dated 3/20/2003 3:43:57 AM Eastern Standard Time, Dick Doherty` <ka1tuz@rcn.com> writes:

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>Subject: Stand Up for America Rally Speech
>Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 20:56:10 -0500
>From: "*Bill" <ecps92@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: "*Bill" <ecps92@earthlink.net>
>To: "*Bill" <ecps92@earthlink.net>
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>> 
>> Stand Up for America Rally Speech 
>> 
>> By: �Beth Chapman 
>> 
>> I'm here tonight because men and women of the United States military 
>> have given their lives for my freedom. �I am not here tonight because 
>> Sheryl Crowe, Rosie O'Donnell, Martin Sheen, George Clooney, Jane 
>> Fonda or Phil Donahue, sacrificed their lives for me. �
>> 
>> If my memory serves me correctly, it was not movie stars or 
>> musicians, but the United States Military who fought on the shores of 
>> Iwo Jima, the jungles of Vietnam, and the beaches of Normandy. �
>> 
>> Tonight, I say we should support the President of the United States 
>> and the U.S. Military and tell the liberal, tree-hugging, Birkenstock-
>> wearing, hippy, tie-dyed liberals to go make their movies and music 
>> and whine somewhere else. �
>> 
>> After all, if they lived in Iraq, they wouldn't be allowed the 
>> freedom of speech they're being given here today. �Ironically, they 
>> would be put to death at the hands of Sadam Husssein or Osama Bin 
>> Laden.
>> 
>> I want to know how the very people who are against war because of the 
>> loss of life, can possibly be the same people who are for abortion?
>> 
>> They are the same people who are for animal rights but against the 
>> rights of the unborn. 
>> 
>> The movie stars say they want to go to Iraq and serve as "human 
>> shields" for the Iraqis. I say let them buy a one-way ticket and go. �
>> 
>> No one likes war. I hate war! �But the one thing I hate more is the 
>> fact that this country has been forced into war-innocent people have 
>> lost their lives - - and there but for the grace of God, it could 
>> have been my brother, my husband, or even worse my own son.
>> 
>> On December 7, 1941, there are no records of movie stars treading the 
>> blazing waters of Pearl Harbor. �
>> 
>> On September 11, 2001; there are no photos of movie stars standing 
>> as "human shields" against the debris and falling bodies descending 
>> from the World Trade Center. �There were only policemen and firemen -
>> �-underpaid civil servants who gave their all with nothing expected 
>> in return. �
>> 
>> When the USS Cole was bombed, there were no movie stars guarding the 
>> ship - - where were the human shields then? �
>> 
>> If America's movie stars want to be human shields, let them shield 
>> the gang-ridden streets of Los Angeles, or New York City, let them 
>> shield the lives of the children of North Birmingham whose mothers 
>> lay them down to sleep on the floor each night to shelter them from 
>> stray bullets. � 
>> 
>> If they want to be human shields, I say let them shield the men and 
>> women of honesty and integrity who epitomize courage and embody the 
>> spirit of freedom by wearing the proud uniforms of the United States 
>> Military. �Those are the people who have earned and deserve shielding!
>> 
>> Throughout the course of history, this country has remained free, not 
>> because of movie stars and liberal activists, but because of brave 
>> men and women who hated war too. �However, they lay down their lives 
>> so that we all may live in freedom. �After all - "What greater love 
>> hath no man, that he lay down his life for his friend," or in this 
>> case a country.
>> 
>> We should give our military honor and acknowledgement and not let 
>> their lives be in vain. �If you want to see true human shields, walk 
>> through Arlington Cemetery. �There lie human shields, heroes, and the 
>> BRAVE Americans who didn't get on television and talk about being a 
>> human shield - they were human shields.
>> 
>> I thank God tonight for freedom - - those who bought and paid for it 
>> with their lives in the past �- - those who will protect it in the 
>> present and defend it in the future.
>> 
>> America has remained silent too long! �God-fearing people have 
>> remained silent too long! �
>> 
>> We must lift our voices united in a humble prayer to God for guidance 
>> and the strength and courage to sustain us throughout whatever the 
>> future may hold. �
>> 
>> After the tragic events of Sept. 11th, my then eleven -year-old son 
>> said terrorism is a war between us and them and if you're not one of 
>> us, then you're one of them. �
>> 
>> So in closing tonight, let us be of one accord, let us stand proud, 
>> and let us be the human shields of prayer, encouragement and support 
>> for the President, our troops and their families and our country.
>> 
>> May God bless America, the land of the free, the home of the brave 
>> and the greatest country on the face of this earth! 
>> 
>> � 
>> 
>> 
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