[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] today (July 4th reaction + photos)

[Joe Miller]

Friends,

Just to point out that we are misidentified in your posted photos. We are, and always have been, Vietnam Veterans Against The War, not "Vietnam Veterans Against War". We are not a pacifist organization.

Peace With Justice,
Joe Miller
National Coordinator,
Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc.

www.vvaw.org


-----Original Message-----
>From: Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
>Sent: Jul 6, 2008 1:37 PM
>To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] today (July 4th reaction + photos)
>
>On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 01:26:05PM -0500, John W. wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Karen Medina <kmedina at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Pamela wrote:
>> 
>> > they were applauded all along the route and a number
>> > >of people stood.
>> >
>> > I was overwhelmed by the reception on Lincoln Avenue. At first I thought
>> > the people could not possibly be clapping for us and I kept looking around
>> > to see what could be attracting so much respect. After the initial
>> > disbelief, tears came to my eyes and I had to fight them back.
>> >
>> > -karen medina
>> 
>> 
>> Back in 2001, I think it was, I marched with the Prairie Greens.  We had the
>> Radical Cheerleaders marching with us, and lots of signs which were made,
>> interestingly enough, in Laurel Prussing's home office.  We got a fabulous
>> reception in Urbana, on the east side of Lincoln Avenue.  But just as soon
>> as we turned right from Lincoln onto Florida and entered the "Champaign
>> domain", our reception got decidedly chilly.  Lots of glares and very little
>> applause.  It was really quite remarkable, like driving from bright sunlight
>> into a driving rain.
>> 
>> John Wason
>
>
>We saw some of that pattern, and certainly have in past years' marching with AWARE --
>the Lincoln Ave. crowd was certainly more enthusiastic overall than most on Florida.
>
>But I wouldn't describe the Florida Ave. audience as "chilly" this time.
>We saw some grim faces, but there was a good deal of applause, and I didn't hear
>anyone shouting anything hostile at us as has happened at least once in past years.
>
>Some of the cheers (on Florida) were from people wearing military uniforms.
>
>And, we passed one little girl on Florida Ave. wearing a peace sign t-shirt!
>
>Some photos (from Jan Kruse and from me), and links to more, are on the
>
>   http://www.anti-war.net
>
>web site now.
>
>If you took photos you like, please let me/everybody know so we can post them too!
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