[Peace-discuss] 4th of July parade

[C. G. Estabrook]

	"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that 
period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for 
Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for 
capitalism ... Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The 
best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on 
three continents."
	--Maj. Gen. S. D. Butler (1881–1940), at the time of his death, the most 
decorated Marine in U.S. history, including two Medals of Honor

Maybe statements like this from our military heroes could be made large enough 
to be legible form the street and displayed next to the pictures.  --CGE


Randall Cotton wrote:
> 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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