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| Rally at Ypsilanti High School, Ypsilanti, MI - April 5, 2003
VVA Motto: Never again shall a Vet coming home from battle be made to feel alone and unappreciated. |
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Some of us came in wheel chairs. Some of us needed breathing equipment. Some of us dressed up and brought our pets. All of us braved a bone chilling, snow-studded wind to show support for our Troops and their families. |
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We waved flags and banners. We pledged-to-the-flag and sang songs. We prayed for our Troops and gave tribute and roses to their wives, mothers and grandmothers. We signed cards and yellow ribbons and brought gifts to send to our Troops. We rolled out a huge American flag, chanted “USA” and sang the Star Spangled Banner, To Show Support For Our Troops |
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We regard our
men and women in military service as our “heroes.” We pray for
them and to them we say, “God bless you. Thank you for fighting to
keep us safe and free. We honor you for your sacrifice on our behalf
and we pray that you can come home safely - and soon.”
To those who distress our Troops we say; “Look at these pictures. Rallies like this are starting up all over our country. This is the real America." We Support Our Troops |
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We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.
George W. Bush |
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If your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.
Ronald Reagan |
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"Over the past five years, 400,000 Iraqi children under the age of five
died of malnutrition and disease, preventively, but died because of
the nature of the regime under which they are living." (Prime Minister
Tony Blair, March 27, 2003)
Under the oil-for-food program, the international community sought to make available to the Iraqi people adequate supplies of food and medicine, but the regime blocked sufficient access for international workers to ensure proper distribution of these supplies. Since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, coalition forces have discovered military warehouses filled with food supplies meant for the Iraqi people that had been diverted by Iraqi military forces. |
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to a 2001 Amnesty International report, "victims of torture
in Iraq are subjected to a wide range of forms of torture,
including the gouging out of eyes, severe beatings and
electric shocks... some victims have died as a result
and many have been left with permanent physical and psychological
damage."
Saddam has had approximately 40 of his own relatives murdered. Allegations of prostitution used to intimidate opponents of the regime, have been used by the regime to justify the barbaric beheading of women. |
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If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable
privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not
basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long
engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until
the glorious object of our contest be obtained, we must fight! I repeat
sir, we must fight!
Patrick Henry |
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| We shall not fail or falter;
we shall not weaken or tire.... Give us the tools and we will finish the job. Winston Churchill |
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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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Liberty is to the collective body,
what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. Henry Bolingbroke |
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The meaning of America is not to be found in a life without toil
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort. Calvin Coolidge |
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| Posterity,
you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve
your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
John Quincy Adams |
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