[Peace-discuss] 4th of July parade

[Randall Cotton]

So what is the running list of our military heroes so far?

I recall:

Smedley Butler
Bob Wahlfeldt
Camilo Mejia
Matthis Chiroux
one or more of the current-day Winter Soldiers

any other ideas?

Wouldn't it be nice to feature big 6' wide x 8' tall portraits of, say,
4-6 of our heroes as a float with accompanying captions or quotes? It
would cost like $25 each in printing costs for black and white (each
portrait would be made up of four 3' wide x 4' tall panels). We could
build a structure to mount them on out of wood sheeting and 2x4's and set
it on the flatbed trailer we use every year (can we get that again? what
are the dimensions of the actual flatbed platform?). Or a smooth-sided bus
or semi-trailer might work too - just tape the panels to the sides. The
portraits could be decorated with the usual patriotic bunting.

I have a high-resolution version of the attached image of Major General
Butler that would work very nicely. If we decide on who else we want to
honor, I could track down other images and do the printing work.

R

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Medina" <kmedina at uiuc.edu>
To: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 2:47 PM
Subject: [Peace-discuss] 4th of July parade


: Dear Peace-Discuss,
:
: For the 4th of July parade (theme is "Honoring our Military Heroes"), I
was thinking
: that tee-shirts saying "I support Iraq Veterans Against the War" might
be
: appropriate.
:
: IVAW has some tee-shirts:
: http://ivaw.org/products/mojostore.php?_=list&Category=4923
:
: Matthis Chiroux would be another hero to honor.
:
: -karen medina
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