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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Reclaiming Patriotism

As citizens, we honor and support our troops for their service and sacrifice.
As Americans, we are blessed by that sacrifice and support, which keeps us safe and keeps us strong.

As patriots, we call on our government to support our troops in the most important way it can - by ending this war and bringing them home.

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This Memorial Day weekend, we will all take responsibility for the country we love and the men and women who protect it. We will volunteer, we will pray, and we will speak out. In the days leading up to Memorial Day, we will take action to support our troops, end the war, and bring them home to the heroes' welcome they deserve. And on Memorial Day, we will honor and remember all those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.

Each of us has a responsibility to act, a duty to our troops and to each other. Support the troops. End the war.





There are many ways we can take action this Memorial Day weekend to support the troops and end the war. Start with one of the 10 ideas listed below -- ranging from care packages for the troops to public gatherings speaking out against the war. Or show your support in your own unique way. And on Memorial Day, take a action to remember and honor the fallen.

To begin, add your information below and choose what kind of action you’re going to take.



10 Things You Can Do Over Memorial Weekend to Support the Troops and End the War

Throughout our history, military men and women and their families have sacrificed for America. The troops in Iraq and their families continue to sacrifice today. So this Memorial Day Weekend, John Edwards is asking the American people to give some part of their weekend in return—to honor and remember all those who have gone before in service to our country, and to let our government know we want to honor our troops by ending the war and bringing them home.

This Memorial Day weekend, John Edwards is asking that we all take responsibility for the country we love and the brave men and women who protect us. As citizens, let’s volunteer in support of our troops, and offer our service to honor theirs. As Americans, let’s take a moment to join in prayer for our troops. And as patriots, let’s gather together this weekend and make our voices heard. It’s up to us. If we are loud enough, and clear enough, we can end this war. Because it really is possible to stop a president who believes he can do no wrong—it just takes people with the courage to do what’s right.

Get local, get active, and get outdoors. Walk the streets of your neighborhood. Get everyone you know to sign a petition to your local government body—for instance, your town or city council or neighborhood association—to pass a resolution requesting that Congress use its funding authority to support our troops and end the war. Bring the petition to the next meeting. Share your plans here.

Send our troops a taste of home. Go shopping with your kids, your friends, your neighbors, and buy a whole bunch of stuff that would make a soldier happy to receive (check for restrictions). Then go through a site like Anysoldier.com, OpGratitude.com, or TroopCarePackage.com to send your package to a soldier in Iraq. Take photos and tell us about it.

Gather in public. On Memorial Day weekend, get your friends, kids, co-workers, neighbors, aunts, uncles, grandfathers, grandmothers, and anyone and everyone you know together to publicly support the troops and end the war. If you hold an event on Memorial Day itself, please make sure that everyone you gather knows it is a day for honoring the fallen only. Be sure to check with your local authority for any permits you need for public gatherings. Contact local media to publicize your event. Before you get started, please take a moment of silence to honor the fallen. And during your event, make sure you conduct yourself respectfully—both for those serving in Iraq and the memory of the brave servicemen and women that Memorial Day honors. Share your plans here.

Pray. Organize a prayer vigil for our troops at your house of worship. Honor the fallen. Tell us about it.

Make your voice heard in Washington. Call President Bush at (202) 456-1111 or email him at comments@whitehouse.gov. Call your Representative and U.S. Senator and ask them to use their funding power to support our troops and end the war. Tell us about it.
Get vocal. Buy a bunch of poster-board and markers. At a picnic or with family and friends, make signs that say “SUPPORT THE TROOPS - END THE WAR.” Bring them to your local Memorial Day parade. Many parades are held on Saturday or Sunday. If your parade is on Monday, however, we ask that you choose another action to honor the fallen. Then take a digital photo of yourself and your family or friends holding up the poster and tell us about it. We’ll include it in a “Democracy Photo Album” on our site.

Greet a vet. Before Memorial Day Weekend gets started, get in touch with the Yellow Ribbon Fund and volunteer to provide welcome-back services and mentorships to injured soldiers returning home. Tell us about it.

Say thank you. Send a thank-you note to our troops through organizations like Let's Say Thanks or A Million Thanks. Better yet - gather folks together to write thank-you notes at a picnic. Tell us about it.

Help an injured vet. Before Memorial Day Weekend gets underway, contact your local VA Hospital and learn how you can volunteer. Tell us about it.

Light up the night. Get your friends and family together and organize a Memorial Day candlelight vigil to support our troops, end the war, and honor the fallen. Share your plans here.

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Do it. Support John Edwards or Dennis Kucinich or Mike Gravel. Support them in their drive to return sanity to America. Even if your family's income (and expendable on frills) is reliant on the military. Take a page from Jan Wesner. She's real.





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You really CAN'T make me take sides

When people say you have to choose because there are no bystanders; make no mistake: They're trying to feed you into the hate/divide thresher. Some people LOVE the hate/divide thresher and they belly right up to it and start singing the song --- the siren song of Hate/Divide.

Drug War: No bystanders. Sorry, I'm one. And I've had a LOT of people try to draw me in. A.you're stupid assholes. B. Just legalize and legislate. It's a joke. It's a big joke. On all of us. Even those who aren't bystanders are carrying a burden only slightly mitigated by beemers and hummers.

Protestant/Catholic: Not sure I could tell you exactly what a Protestant is or does and feel no need to become an expert on any ol'religion just so we can talk (argue/divide) about it. How silly. I happen to be sorta an expert on Catholic or at least I can tell you verbatim what I listened to by rote. I spent MY time in church looking around and was absorbed as usual by the sounds, the art, the humanity, etc.... It was a place of peace. Until they took the Catholic church down with real and imagined witch hunts and pedophiles. YOu go in a Catholic Church NOW and they have this very 'baptist-like' hands toward the sky thing going on. I was like, "Whoa, how long has THIS been going on??" LOL. And, shut up because I love Baptists. Yep, I've been engaged (albeit VERY briefly in some cases) a number of times. Guys like to buy me diamonds, what can I say? Don't do that anymore !!! I don't like them anymore. They are NOT a girl's best friend and sometimes the shock is palpable. I DO like surprises though and this boyfriend has to be THE best at finding his way to my heart with the smallest things that are surprises and thoughtful listening. (I have to throw in some love for him because .... well, he knows why LOL) And I've been to Baptist churches with one of the engagees, because omygod that's what THEY WANT THEIR WIVES TO DO: go to church with mama (at least he did) And, while I looked around all nervous he said ... "You're shivering, are you cold?? .... and I said, "NO, I'm afraid the roof is going to fall in". The next weekend they (the church people who really seemed cool as long as they stay within that parameter for me) were at my house because OH HELL YEAH that really IS why you fill out those lil 'guest' cards. Very daunting business. Probably all churches do that but I'll NEVER know because they've never gotten MY address again. Whew, too long spent on Catholics/Protestants. The reason why I brought it up is because I am of mixed background. HORROR. Yep, I'm part Irish and part English, among other stuff and so I am deeply ASHAMED and REPELLED by my fellow countrymen being involved in this long disgusting struggle over religion. Set it DOWN; move forward from THIS day. Right now. This moment. Make the rest count.
I've been in so many different types of churches. Not because of a search but to be polite. I found what I needed inside of me, I was born with it. The utter confidence and faith that there is something bigger than me and you and whatever you want to call 'it'/he/she/them ... just LIVE WELL and BE KIND. I personally find that same peace anywhere outside at any given moment or anywhere inside of myself. It's there. You're born with it. Anything you'll EVER need in this lifetime you are given before you get kicked out here with these other ummmmmmm human beings. Oh, and the reason I'm not going to study your religion is simple: Do I ask you to study my interests? Nope. I don't mind listening and sometimes I am even going to be interested but .... ummm, don't expect me to remember any of it. It's not that interesting. To me it's another form of divide/conquer/hate and if you try too hard to involve me in your religion it will make me really wonder about you as a person and why you are such a soldier for your own personal regime. By the same token, I can't stand beer though numerous among my friends extol it's many virtues. To be polite, I've tried a # of times. YICK. So, while you extol the virtues of various beer my eyes are also rolling, looking around .... etc.... being polite. Although I like to read about the good times people have while they explore beer. Hmmmm. This is going to get off track.

Religion and DIVISION by SAME is only second in line to color, I think. Inside of each religion there are OTHER divisions where some more infighting can occur. TOTALLY LAUGHABLE. March off smugly with your beliefs while the whole fuckin world burns down. That's great. Inside of colors you have these folks kicking each other around. Apparently some terms are highly insulting to others of color from a member of their culture/race/ethnicity. I know that white people have this antipathy towards red-haired people because apparently a lot of white people are assholes. I dunno. It's so stupid. Set it DOWN and MOVE FORWARD.

Black/White/Yellow/Red/Green/Purple
Enough of this, already. Set down what you're carrying and move forward. Please.
I'm on your side but I have to be on my side, too. Yep, sorry, I do. I'm on all our sides but I'm stretched sorta thin being a human bridge. You start doing your part.

Israel/Whomever Else
Get over it. Stop pretending that you are right and they are wrong. You are right and wrong and they are right and wrong. It's NOT Holy Land anymore. Nobody's idea of God or Saviour would look upon that and condone. STOP IT. Stop involving entire other countries and disinterested folks in the twistiness of more division. If you can't be YOU without war-mongering and advocating for this hatred of those born across some border, you are the problem. Set it down and move forward. I am probably as ashamed of this as I am of the Irish/English Catholic/Protestant thing. I know powerful jews on both sides of the aisle. Some are funding some are disgusted. Color me disgusted by the whole thing. Live at peace and love one another. One fucking rule. JUST ONE. Love one another. What is so tough about that?

Politricks(Politicians)/US YOU AND ME. Get it straight. That's all it is. Seriously. And stop the silliness within the parties and move on. Let's just look for decency, integrity and honesty. That's all we need to move forward. I don't care what kinda hair you have, I DO care that you can do more than string iconic sound bites together with meaningful pauses. I like Ron Paul, I don't like Nancy Pelosi. I took Jim Davis and ran with him and had some serious misgivings but he beat all that was out there by a decent record and by being a seriously smooth pol all his life. Now he's going to be a lobbyist. Jesus. I definitely DID NOT go for Jim because he was this or that or stood for this or that. More like he was less an anti-christ and more a decent guy than the others.

This bullshit where you choose a candidate because they are for or against abortion is NOT correct. These people are to represent YOU. Vote for decency and then tell them what YOU want. It's NOT UP to anyone to decide whether they are for or against gun control. It's up to US. We tell them what we want. Try to remember that.

And, I'm not going to choose your side. Frankly, I don't really give a damn WHAT your side is in these divisive issues. If you're a little guy getting kicked around, that's easy to see. If you are POSING as a little guy being kicked around that's also pretty easy to discern. No fricking country is being forced by ANY OTHER COUNTRY to do ANYTHING. You can't control that country but you damn sure CAN control the way you react.

So, good people of intelligence: Stop furthering the idiocies that are polarizing and divisive. Or shut up. Simple. Just love everyone.

and guess what?? You are not right. Only half right.

So rather than continuing to promote the hate and the division, choose instead to be part of a bridge to understanding. A goal would be to understand that many many many things, some obscured by revisionist history led us all to this moment.

Make it count for your children and grandchildren, for your poets and your loved ones, for your musicians and your dreams.

Be part of a bridge of U N D E R S T A N D I N G.

I understand.

I understand.

I understand.

I will not take your side. You will not catch me going against someone to join in YOUR zeal to destroy another.

Gangs: Honestly, how does it feel to do what you are told all day every day and night? And, don't pretend that you don't. Helllllooooooo the synchronicity which happens so accidentally (LOL!) shows that you do what you are told all day every day. Just stop.

Stand for yourself. Try to remember before you made that choice. Don't wait for the deathbed to know the truth I am telling you:

When it's over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.

And, that's a simple lesson.

Build a bridge. Stop burning down the house. Or threatening to do so. (LOL)
Build bridges of understanding. There must be something that everyone wants. Find it.

Happy Memorial Day. It's about ending this occupation of Iraq, ending the war in Afghanistan (which so many seem to have forgotten about but I can't because my best friend's brother is there again after the new year), it's about going and having a drink or a meal with someone that you just can't "GET" and see if you can get it. Done genuinely.

Genuinely love everyone and build some bridges together.


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Okay, tell me if this sounds mercenary. I'm leaving out names and identities for now, and even some words to protect those who frankly don't deserve protection but having never been a RAT (like some) I just don't feel good about spilling people's filthy sides of their lives onto the WWW...

However -- (you knew this was coming, right??) -- I'm willing to disclose same for a fee. In fact, I'm going to disclose some of this in a book which will definitely be for sale very soon but if you'd like to know if your name or some similar aspect that identifies your smarmy and illegal acts towards me and my family have been mentioned I'd be happy to negotiate a fee with you. For the record, save your pennies if I've known you longer than thirty years. Out of respect for you and your family I'll leave your names out. Out of respect for you and your family I have remained silent. Apparently this same respect was not inbred in you. That's a pity but you and yours are safe with me. The ones who took it upon themselves to do your bidding against an innocent family are wide open just like they've left MY family wide open. Herewith I refer to my extended family and network many of whom are currently suffering at your hands. Be on notice.

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In my living room watching;
but I am not laughing ....

..... risk something, take back what's yours
say something that you know they might attack you for
cause I'm sick of being treated like I have before ....
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Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day

In their living room laughing like,

"what did he say?"



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