  Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 903 Registered: 11-2005 |
Anyone know what's up with the makeshift graveyard? Probably an antiwar protest? Should be interesting with tomorrow's Tigers game. Anyone know when this went up? Hazen S. Pingree isn't going to take this sitting down! . . . OK, maybe he will. (Message edited by rhymeswithrawk on September 20, 2007) | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 2727 Registered: 02-2004 |
From the Gray Panthers of Metro Detroit website: ARLINGTON MIDWEST - THE HUMAN COST OF WAR DISPLAY Sept 22 1 p.m. OPENING CEREMONY. This powerful display, being held in Detroit's Grand Circus Park, encourages the public to reflect on the human cost of war. People needed to assemble and to be peacekeepers/greeters. Call: Dan Lombardo, 248-895-3317. Co-sponsored by DAPJN, Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition, MECAWI and ACOSS. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 3690 Registered: 02-2005 |
I appreciate any constructive public demonstration like this. But I would like the demonstrators from NW Ohio to leave, please. | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 905 Registered: 11-2005 |
You don't like out-of-town visitors, Mackinaw? | ||
Southen Member Username: Southen Post Number: 291 Registered: 08-2006 |
Interesting that it coincides with the death of our 2007 Tigers. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 3324 Registered: 12-2005 |
Gray Panthers of Metro Detroit | ||
Aoife Member Username: Aoife Post Number: 25 Registered: 04-2007 |
There were about a dozen ladies walking through Wayne State today dressed in all black and carrying black balloons. Are they related to this? | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 411 Registered: 02-2007 |
They should call the two guys with the "Honk if 9-11 = Inside job" signs. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 3691 Registered: 02-2005 |
Just poking at Ohio as always, Rhymes. Half-joking. And yeah we need visitors. | ||
Detroithabitater Member Username: Detroithabitater Post Number: 37 Registered: 10-2006 |
I'm pretty sure it was "wear black day" for the jenna 6. | ||
Docmo Member Username: Docmo Post Number: 296 Registered: 10-2005 |
I walked through the Arlington Midwest display. It is quite moving. They are asking you to reflect on the loss of life and suffering associated with the war. It is not a blatant in your face anti-war protest. It is hard to not be moved by reading the names of every lost American life and the names of many Iraqis. This comes from someone who voted for President Bush twice. | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 2730 Registered: 02-2004 |
It is very nice. Everyone should stop by and say a prayer, or spare a thought. | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 4000 Registered: 10-2004 |
Ah yes! Yet another meaningless demonstration--as if anybody not connected to it really cares... Be sure to get that one--or two unbiased news people out there to objectively cover it--in case it's a slow news day, then the demonstration might actually get on the air or paper. | ||
Detroitduo Member Username: Detroitduo Post Number: 866 Registered: 06-2005 |
Quote Docmo: "This comes from someone who voted for President Bush twice." I can't believe you are willing to publicly admit that.... | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 4001 Registered: 10-2004 |
quote:Quite understandable and completely realistic. The only viable alternatives back then were a doofus and pathological liar named Algore or another liar who went by the name of JFK. | ||
Detroitduo Member Username: Detroitduo Post Number: 867 Registered: 06-2005 |
All Politicians are liars. Don't fool yourself. And let's not forget that the "doofus" is also a pathological liar AND an idiot. Personally, I would have gone with an intelligent pathological liar. Then, perhaps, an attack on a middle east country would have been thoroughly thought through and planned, as apposed to, "Strike and see what happens". But, hey, that's MY opinion. We'll never know anything different. | ||
Docmo Member Username: Docmo Post Number: 297 Registered: 10-2005 |
Half of the Country voted for President Bush. He is the legal leader of this country. I have no problem publicly admitting my vote for our President, even though the management of this war, like most wars, has clearly not gone the way they had hoped. This thread is about the Arlington Midwest monument Demonstration. I was very moved to spend 60 minutes reading the names, ranks, age, hometown and then a description of where and how each of these American soldiers died. | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 413 Registered: 02-2007 |
Quote "--in case it's a slow news day, then the demonstration might actually get on the air or paper." The media will not cover demonstrations against the war and the asswhippin we're throwin on the Iraqis. | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 2734 Registered: 02-2004 |
Thanks, Docmo, for visiting the memorial in the spirit it was created. I will pass on your thoughts to the folks who put it up. |
