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

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http://www.supportthetroopsendthewar.com/">10 Things You Can Do Over Memorial Weekend to Support the Troops and End the War

1.) Get local, get active, and get outdoors
Walk the streets of your neighborhood. Get everyone you know to sign a petition to end the war!

2.) 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

3.) 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.

4.) Pray.
Organize a prayer vigil for our troops at your house of worship. Honor the fallen.

5.) Make your voice heard in Washington.
Call President Bush at [phone] or email him at [e-mail].
Call your Representative and U.S. Senator and ask them to use their funding
power to support our troops and end the war.

6.) 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.

7.) 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.

8.) 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.

9.) Help an injured vet.
Before Memorial Day Weekend gets underway,
contact your local VA Hospital and learn how you can volunteer.

10.) 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

More .... http://www.supportthetroopsendthewar.com/

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"As a Navy Veteran and the proud granddaughter of a WWII Navy Veteran I can think of nothing
to do that is more patriotic than to voice my support of our troops and ask for the end of
the war in Iraq." more....
Terri T., Nevada

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As I get ready for my third tour into Iraq, I just want to say "BRING US HOME"!
Terry Z., Kansas


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Birthday Gathering Event with prayer for Troops...
Our Guests will pray for the Troops to come home.
As most families, I too have a loved one serving there.
Margaret E., Georgia


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I am writing to you in the hopes that my words will make a difference as well as to remind people
of what this war is actually costing us. My name is Michele and my brother was SFC Isaac
... As the anniversary of his death approaches, and as I see President Bush preparing to veto a
bill that will start the process of bring our troops home, I felt compelled to speak...
I hope that this is published in every paper in this country, so that our President may know
what the true cost of this war is. And if he should decide to veto, then he should hear our cries,
he should know how we mourn, grieve and wail.
I will like to end this with a poem I wrote about my dear brother.

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For Shawn

They said it was an I.E.D.
Those letters had never meant much to me.

An Improvised Explosive Device,
That some insurgent cooked up one night.

It took from me the last bit of heart I had left.
When God called my brother Shawn home to rest.

Oh Dearest, no more sorrow and no more worries for you,
I try to find peace in knowing Mama was waiting see you through.

I try to think of the happy times and laughter we shared,
But sometimes I can not take it and my soul starts to tear.

I care not about politics or for those who see this war as a game of chess,
For the day I buried my brother I also laid my weary heart to rest.

Michele G., California


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My Son, Ryan was killed in Iraq ..
Today is Mothers Day and I am heartbroken as you can imagine.
We need to bring our troops home as soon as possible.
The war in Iraq is a DISASTER!!! Please bring our troops home.
Sheryl V., Washington

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1. Many events and actions listed near me!

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Here's a few.....


tell the President to end the War!
02446
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Distance: about 17.32 miles
I'll encourage my friends and family to write letters to the White House,...


Pray For Our Troops and our Country
Worcester, MA
Sunday, May 27, 2007 12:00 Noon- 9:00 PM
Distance: about 26.00 miles
1 RSVP
Set your timer/watch/cell phone to go off at the top of every hour. When you...


Memorial Day Peace Picnic
Newport, RI
Monday, May 28, 2007 1:00 PM- 6:00 PM
Distance: about 44.11 miles
Please join us for a family-friendly community-building event this Memorial...


DemocracyFest Preperation
Manchester, NH
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Distance: about 54.14 miles
I will spend all of Memorial Day Weekend, and the next 2 weeks, helping to...


Memorial Day at Town Green, Plaistow NH
Plaistow, NH
Monday, May 28, 2007 2:00 PM- 2:30 PM
Distance: about 57.85 miles
I will be at the town green for Memorial Day observance. I'll wear a yellow...


Peace Vigil -stand w/ others to "bring them home" at the Danbury War Memorial, Danbury CT
Danbury, CT
Saturday, May 26, 2007 10:30 AM- 12:00 Noon
Distance: about 75.74 miles
We stand every Saturday morning at 10:30 to Noon, until the War in Iraq is...

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2. Putting Up the Signs ... for those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan

Putting Up the Signs

Posted on:5/21/2007

http://www.hollistonnetnews.com/viewarticle.asp?aid=3213&cid=77&index=1

by Bobby Blair

Both Channel 4 and 5 called me days before volunteers were to put up the signs for those killed
in Iraq and Afghanistan. Neither station was sure that it would be in Holliston to cover what has
now become a bi- annual event.

Channel 5 did send a reporter and cameraman, the same two who covered the tribute last year.
The reporter, a Holliston resident, asked me why I continue to do the tribute. I explained
that it had become what some residents call a town tradition, a term I’d rather not use. I
said I would feel guilty for those who had recently perished who would not have the same honor
as those before them had, should we discontinue the project. Off camera, I told the reporter
that the project was in fact getting old; I am fatigued at the continuing losses.

When yet another Boston TV station called to see if there was anything different about the
tribute this time around, I could only say that the names had changed and that 650 more
Americans won’t be returning home alive.

Each six month interval that the signs are hung seems to come a little sooner.



A contractor working on Hollis Street leaned over a fence and asked me
“Do you do this every year?” No, twice a year, I told him.
“Yes” he said, “I always see the signs, they really make you think.”

Upon my return home I checked the web site I use to obtain the names of those killed. Fifteen
more Americans had been killed in two days, their names not released yet, pending notification
of next of kin.

Their names will be added to the list already begun for inclusion in tribute for Veterans Day 2007.


One volunteer hanging signs offered up the fact that the war has gone on longer than WWII.

The sign hanging volunteers were a mixed bag, mostly veterans, two selectmen, one of whom
brought his fifteen year-old son. One man, an Australian who lives in Austria and visiting
the donor of the poster boards joined us.

For the most part, all of us would go about our Sunday routine and our ordinary lives come Monday morning.

But for those fifteen families who shall have a military officer knocking on their door
within hours, life has forever changed. Makes you think.

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