Call For Help
February 24, 2007
Folks, we thought that “A Gathering of Eagles� would be a relatively modest undertaking, with maybe a couple thousand patriots gathering with the sole purpose of defending The Wall against the depredations of the America-hating A.N.S.W.E.R. crowd. Our focus was simply to send a message and protect our Wall.
Well, there’s good news! We are now looking at TENS OF THOUSANDS of Americans who will not only be guarding The Wall, but showing Jane Fonda and Cindy Sheehan that they will not control Washington, D.C. on March 17th.
The response to the announcement of our counter-protest has been nothing short of phenomenal. If you don’t believe us, just scroll through the website and look at “State Infoâ€? and “Volunteer Infoâ€? (under “Sectionsâ€? on the right side of the homepage) and “Logisticsâ€? under “Article Topics,â€? which is just below “Sections.â€? In just two short weeks, we’ve had almost 105,000 hits to the website, with an outpouring of volunteers and help from all sides.
What you don’t see are the additional expenses that we’re incurring in making this thing happen. Just for starters, the National Park Service told us that we should plan on having one porta-potty for each 300 Eagles! While we think that’s a little excessive, it is clear that we will be spending several thousand dollars to furnish enough for our use. We also have to provide medical emergency services and insurance, which will cost thousands more.
And that isn’t all. Since so many Eagles are coming, we are forced to do a bit more than provide “milling-around space.� Now we are going to have a full-fledged rally, with platform, sound system, and decorations. That will run several thousand dollars more.
We can tell you that we need around $25,000.00 to pull this one off properly. We can also tell you that folks are already sending unsolicited gifts, and we now have over $3,000.00 in the bank. That’s a great start, and we thank those who have already contributed.
The GOE co-chairs have loaned the Gathering $10,000.00. Please don’t make us “eat� that investment!
Should we have funds left over post-Gathering, we will donate them to charitable organizations, especially those that benefit vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Time is short, and our needs are long. We’ve undertaken this event on faith, and we need all of you to help us. PLEASE send a contribution by PayPal or credit card (via the website) or by check payable to “Gathering of Eagles� and mailed to:
Vets for the Truth
Box 291
Chocowinity, NC 27817
PLEASE HELP! This may well be the most important pro-troop rally in our country’s history, and we humbly ask that you help us make it the biggest!
Many thanks. We hope to see you on March 17th!
Eagles Up!
Harry Riley and Larry Bailey
For more information on donations and funding needed, please feel free to contact co-chair Harry Riley at hmriley@cox.net.
Comments
Podcast Feeds
-
i have already made a 100 dollar contribution as it was clear that there would be significant costs associated with this
rally. i would appreciate it if the organizers would keep us apprised of the financial progress that you are making so that we know what help is still needed.
[...] those who have lost loved ones in Iraq, will be in the front ranks of the March on the Pentagon. Some tiny pro-Bush groups who support the war in Iraq, and who normally mobilize about 25 people to …, are now callously trying to manipulate Vietnam veterans by spreading rumors that the March on the [...]
I would like to make a contribution, do you have an established rate of contribution that would give me the feeling of helping, as I will NOT, be able to physically attend this event. I am sure that you probably have many veterans like myself that are unable to attend do to the problems associated with travel and our disabilities. I am sure you are going to provide the armbands, and I would really like to wear mine on the days of the events. Even if I am not there “in person”.
Sincerely,
John Mann
I can’t seem to figure out how to leave you trackbacks. I just excerpted and linked at Old War Dogs and at Bill’s Bites. (Both sites are already on your sidebar.)
John Mann……….there are no established rates…if you’re led to contribute, please send what you can.
You can also go to the web site and order armbands…see the link at the top of the homepage.
I can understand the need for donations, etc. to provide for things that are needed such as the toilets mentioned. But why all the commercialization? $24.00 for a shirt! Even mousepads? I thought this was about something besides making a buck. If at all possible, I will attend, but I will wear the hat I wore while I served, my ancient Flag pin, and my Gold Star pin. I don’t need anything else, other than my own beliefs. You shouldn’t either.
I thought the same thing at first, but with free shipping the prices are not bad.
I do not and will not use “Pay-Pal”. When I click on the
Visa/MC card above to make a donation to GOE, I am instantly linked to Pay-Pal ?????
Joe England
My check is in the mail!(REALLY)
MY check is in the mail too. And that’s a fact. Wish I could give more but … Disabled Vet here.
Still, I wish I could afford to give more and still get to DC for the 17th. Hope a hundred helps..
Sky~Soldier
A/4th/Batt
503rd Abn Inf
of the
173d Airborne Brigade (SEP)
VietNam 68/69
What is up here? Are you pimping patriotism? What is Vets for Truth? Is that like Swift Boat
Vets for Character Assasination? You make a lot of noise, but it sure smells funny right where you’re at.
And Cindy Sheehan? Leave a poor grieving mother out of this, you creep. What does it take for another human being to have a right to disagree with you? Jane Fonda apologised. And, if you can tell me you haven’t screwed the pooch bad since the Nam, you go right on after her.
You’re driving off the moderate supporters you need. Oh, yeah, I noticed the Freeper link. Utterly Disregard those guys. You got more wingnuts there than at the Stanley Works in Conneticut.
BTW: Three tours. 1965-1969. Two pips on my Phuc. Meh. I was Bagdhad Jims’ (McDermott) bodyguard when he ran for govenor after I got back. Freepers hated that.
Poor grieving mother, eh? Her son was ten times the hero she’ll ever be, and yet while 9 out of 10 Americans know who she is, not many know who her son was. Why is that, I wonder?
And tell me again why her son’s grave went without a headstone for almost 2 years while she drove a new vehicle and jetsetted all over the world?
I applaud her right to disagree. I served to protect it, as did the thousands that will be in DC on March 17th. However, I will never, ever allow anyone to come anywhere near the memorials where our fallen heroes are honored if their message is one of defeat, dishonor, and sedition.
Those who gave their lives in the service of our nation died violent deaths filled with unspeakable horror and pain. I’ll be damned if I’ll let their well-earned final rest be desecrated by a bunch of terrorist-loving idiots who don’t deserve the freedom they wipe their asses with.
That’s MY right.
Marvellous! That’s the site I was looking for!:)
Pimping patriotism?? What cave do you live in? Do you think Fonda and Sheehan and the whole anti-American movement isn’t very well funded? And btw, Hanoi Jane never apologized, her excuse was she was “young” Cindy Sheehan is an embarrassment to the memory of her son AND her country! Why is it the anti’s have carte blanche rights, but those who disagree with them have no rights of rebuttal and are labeled crazies?
Dear GOE:
I read in my local newspaper about the march in March. I had to check out your site. I think you’re missing the mark.
My son is in the Corp and currently in his second tour in Iraq. He just turned 21, while “over there.”
He is my patriot, my hero. Willing to sacrefice himself -in the place of all us cowards. He collects a pitance (15K annually) for risking his life in a foreign land for folks who hate him for being there. Yet he honors his call to duty…to be in the line of fire so that some else would not be.
It is irrelevant what you or I think during a time of war. What’s done is done. Damage control yes, but our yelling about it will not bring any change any sooner. I don’t know where his “call” came from. But I must support what he believes in, simply because he is my son and I believe in him. I just want him home, not just alive, but full of life.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m sickened by the way the government has handled the war, the vets, our place in the world, in history! But with acts of protest we are fostering the wrong message. Pointing finger instead of looking for opportunities for Light.
I mean we all wanted justice after 9/11…but this war is not what we had in mind. Haven’t we, as a country, done enough in this world (internationals call upon the U.S. whenever someplace in the world needs help), for the world (the U.S. rises to those calls for help with billions in aid - yet turns blind to those in need right here at home), to the world (the U.S. does not always do “the right thing”, they do something, but someone always disagrees). Now the entire world is against us! Where will it ever end? Charity and Selflessness? Rightousness and Ignorance? Fight or Surrender?
Stop, look inside, start with ourselves. If each of us would repair what is broken thinking within us, the country, the government, the world will follow. Not today, not next year, but in time the seeds of change will prosper. Tend your own garden.
Billion$ being spent for the futures of children in other lands while so many of our own children right here are abused, neglected and unwanted and hopeless. Today’s youth is growing lazier, bored and drug-addicted, and more hopelessly selfish than ever. There is something very wrong in this world and in our very culture, within our own heart.
I do write endless letters to the whole collection of politicos, from local, state and federal realms. I plead that they all come to their sense and end violence in all forms and arenas. From our streetcorners here at home to the international front.
I appreciate your rights to march. My son fights today for us to have the freedom to even discuss such issues, let alone take it to the streets.
But I doubt he would be proud of me for joining this cause. I doubt the march will help the real issues at all. The issues in the hearts of each of us. That we can turn a blind eye to our own neighbor, but will go through much ado for total strangers who fight in our name.
I, for one, am starting closer to home, for my son, for my neighbors here. But Best of Luck to you all.
semper fi, jerseykilomom…just some thoughts, just missing my son…
Give your son a big “Thank you!” and “Semper Fi!” for me. I also send you my best wishes. But reading your comment, I think you may have missed the mark concerning our actions. Suggest you read about the GOE mission. Best wishes
luogo interessante, soddisfare interessante, buon!
I will be there on March 17.
Kudos to Kit
and Semper Fi to Jerseykilomom.
Nice design, good graphical content. I think I’ll come back later again;)
mmm.. nice design, I must say..
E evidente che il luogo e stato fatto dalla persona che realmente conosce il mestiere!
Yeah, I’d like a ham calzone, and can I get a small salad with that? Thanks.
Morning Coop, I will buy you a cup of coffee to go with that on the 17th. Looking forward to meeting you and that Redhead Infidel. The trolls are more amusing now than irritating. Have a great day.
[...] those who have lost loved ones in Iraq, will be in the front ranks of the March on the Pentagon. Some tiny pro-Bush groups who support the war in Iraq, and who normally mobilize about 25 people to …, are now callously trying to manipulate Vietnam veterans by spreading rumors that the March on the [...]