[Peace] Re: Billboard

[Durango Mendoza]

The proposed sign makes it seem like all those who left have returned. Maybe 
they have but some returned in coffins or without parts of themselves. The 
sign seems too simple for a complex and tragic situation.
DM

----Original Message Follows----
From: Karen Medina <kmedina at uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: kmedina at uiuc.edu
To: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net, Peace at lists.chambana.net
Subject: [Peace] Re: Billboard
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:31:25 -0500

Please change it to "Urbana National Guard" or something
similar.

If the local troops are in Georgia and headed home, then my
objection is now with the implication that the entire
National Guard is home, which is not even the case for all of
the Illinois National Guard.

Illinois Army National Guard units in Iraq:
* C Company, 205th Medical of North Riverside;
* Bravo and Charlie Companies, 2nd Battalion, 130th Infantry,
Effingham and Litchfield;
* 35th Engineer Company, Lawrenceville;
* Alpha Company, 133rd Signal, Crestwood;
* Headquarters Company, 123rd Field Artillery, Milan;
* 126th Maintenance Company, Beardstown;
* Guard soldiers serving with the Polish Multinational
Division.
* ...

---- Original message ----
 >From: Jan & Durl Kruse <jandurl at insightbb.com>
 >The news tonight on local tv stated the Guard is home and in
the country.  They will be in Urbana probably sometime this
week.
 >>>   The National Guard is Home!
 >>>   NOW Bring ALL theTroops Home!
 >>>   End This Unjust & Illegal War!
 >>>   A.W.A.R.E.
 >>>   (Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort)
 >>>   www.anti-war.net
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