[Peace-discuss] 4th of July parade

[Karen Medina]

I'm thinking maybe a quiz for the 4th of July parade.

* Pictures
Kind of like the pictures on the wall in the IMC Family Room (no names. Yet). 
Facts about the person, but no names.

* Quotes
With names. and facts about the person.

* Answers. Linking of the pictures with the quote.

I think we would be best to have a float rather than just walkers. 
Do we have any way to get a wagon thingy? I wonder if one of the organic 
farming people would let us rent one from them.

-karen medina

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 15:45:44 -0500
>From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] 4th of July parade  
>To: Randall Cotton <recotton at earthlink.net>
>Cc: Peace-discuss List <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>
>	"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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