Suzi Benjamin~The Truth
April 29, 2008
Eagles!
You’ve heard me blather about what one person can do; now see Bev Perlson’s latest confrontation with Suzi (Medea) Benjamin, one of the top dogs in Code Pink! Note the sign and the GOE flag! This shot was taken at last week’s GOE counter-protest against Code Pink in New Jersey.
Way to go, Bev!
Larry Bailey
GOE and the G.I. Film Festival
April 29, 2008
We who have served have all had to bear the resentment towards to Hollywood for the way they depict us. Lately, the American soldier is typically portrayed as a poor victim who had no other choice but to serve, or worse as a criminal malcontent. The actual honor and nobility of military service doesn’t seem to make it to major outlets, so the public is left with an unfair, negative or downright despicable image of us. Brandon Millet, whose wife is a West Point grad, saw this and decided to do something about it. He started the G.I. Film Fest to show movies that portray the American service member in a more positive, accurate light.
Hollywood only understands one thing: money. They will make movies that are closer to reality if they smell a profit. This is a way for us to directly send a message to Hollywood, and enjoy some good film fare. Brandon is offering a 20% discount to all Eagles, so go to the festival link and help Brandon to help us. www.gifilmfestival.com. A movie scene that has always stuck in my head has a line that sums it up for me, “All I’ve ever wanted is for my country to love me as much as I love it.” Brandon and the rest of the staff at the G.I. Film Festival get that, so thanks Brandon for loving us and making it known. Manchu.
Victory in New Jersey
April 28, 2008
In solidarity with our friends in Berkeley, on Sunday, April 27th, The Gathering of Eagles told Susie Benjamin and her friends from Code Pink that they were not welcome in New Jersey. What a great day for Eagles!
Susie slinked into sleepy little Northern New Jersey, certain she could defile our state without comment. Imagine the surprise when “Peacers” came down Route 23 and discovered it lined with American flags and patriots there standing up for our troops! The first sign that greeted them? “Code Pink…NOT WELCOME IN NEW JERSEY!” Read more
You asked for them: GOE bike flags
April 25, 2008
Ok folks, I will be placing an order for bike flags next week. These will be the same as the 3×5 flags, only bike sized (5×7) and made of extremely tough nylon with reinforced grommets for those of you who like to ride slightly over the speed limit. ( LOL) Please contact me at eaglesvt at gmail.com if you would like to pre-order one….or 12!
A place for comments that have no other place to be
April 24, 2008
Here’s a spot, and I’ve moved a couple of posts here already on request of GOE National, for all those comments that don’t really fit anywhere else!
The AAR for Saturday’s Iran-mobile counter in Meadville will be delayed. Our video camera has been confiscated by the Edinboro PD. We had a counter protest today in Edinboro. It was an Iraq war protest put together by Richard McVay. He was not present but there were about 10 college students, a couple professors and a group of Hillary supporters. Anyways, Andrew went to the their protest site to videotape a couple odd displays they put up. They were beginning to get aggresive with Andrew simply because he was recording their protest. Jason and I went over to make sure he was ok. Long story short one girl attacked me which turned into 2 girls attacking me. Jason pulled one off of me and then he was attacked and held down by 4-5 people getting punched in the head. Meanwhile Andrew pulled the other girl off me and then she kicked me in the head with a great big boot. I called the cops and while we were waiting on them the girl that kicked me in the head went over to Andrew(14 years old) and punched him right in the face. My 12, 9, and 7 year olds were standing across the street witnessing the whole thing. Here’s the kicker. The cops watched the video at the scene and no arrests were made. One of the cops was very aggressive toward us. The girl later spit on Jason right in front of the cop and nothing was done about it. Amazing! Right now I have a huge headache and knots coming up all over my head. Jason has scratch marks on his face not to mention someone stomping on his glasses when they fell off. Andrew has a red cheek. So we’ll get a AAR for this event and Saturday’s maybe tomorrow night after we get our camera back.
This pissed off woman won’t back down to terror! And next time I will fight back!!!
Carrie Swartout
aka - Pissed Off Military Wife
Home ~ 814-967-2173
Cell ~ 814-282-2930
http://www.nwpagatheringofeagles.com
http://www.myspace.com/pissedoffmilitarywife
http://www.youtube.com/jncs1991
AIM ~ CarrieSwartout
larrymddg
What happened to you and the others with you is an assult and a felony.Once you have your camera back you should file a complaint with the Attorney Generals Office,both stae and federal.You should also file a complaint with the local Police Internal Affairs Office concerning the officer that stood by while the assult continued.Even if he/she is cleared, the complaint will remain on the officers file and can be used against them in future misconduct cases.Absolutly this officer ignored the law. You have every right to video the public and the actions of law enforcement. Believe me, if the local law enforcement refuses to due thier job,the federal will not.Even spitting on you is an assult and if the police officer refuses to do thier job,they are derilict in thier duty. It would also be wise to file a complaint with all elected officials,from local representatives to state,Congress & House of Representatives. Everyone MUST carry these misjustices forward and maybe the next police officer will not be as ignorant of the law. I am sorry this happened to you and the others and i hope you will seek the justice you and the others deserve. Larry
2008 Operation Recruiter Appreciation underway!
April 24, 2008
Hello EAGLES! I have volunteered to act as the GOE point of contact for “Operation Recruiter Appreciation” (ORA) to be held on or about May 17th (Armed Forces Day). Our recruiters are our “First Line of Defense” and need to be recognized for their efforts. In the past year, our recruiters have been under attack by insurgents right here at home! As Eagles we need to show them that we know they are important and we appreciate them. Read more
Tullytown Memorial Day Parade Invite
April 23, 2008
Many of you will remember our very first successful action after GOE I. It took place in suburban Philadelphia, in the Borough of Tullytown. MSgt Joe Shellenberger, a member of City Council in Tullytown, had deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. As he was stationed on an airbase, he wanted to participate in Council business via teleconference. Despite it being expressly authorized by the state charter, the City Council President refused to allow a motion to even be brought. Well, we heard about a brother in arms needing assistance and showed up in force. Long story short, we lost the initial battle and could not get Joe his teleconference, but we did inform the borough’s residents of the miscarriage of justice. City Council elections swept out the offending parties and the bylaws were changed to expressly permit deployed service members their Constitutional rights. Read more
Rally in Honor of the Army’s 233rd Birthday
April 22, 2008
For those of you that are service challenged, that’s 14 June, 2008. In recognition of this momentous occasion we are taking the fight to the streets of West Chester, PA. One of the more virulent anti-American groups has set up shop on the steps of the Courthouse there. The birthplace of two-time Medal of Honor recipient, Smedley Butler USMC, has witnessed vile, spiteful attacks by peace protestors. In fact, one of the Vets for Peace (formerly the Vietnam Vets Against the War) assaulted a female because she had the temerity to film his anti-American antics for posterity’s sake. This, from a group that never fails to film everything, which they doctor to promote their own hateful bile. Some of you may remember that the leader of this peace movement made the most despicable comments, in both private and public venues, about veterans in general and us in particular. In case you have forgotten here’s a sampling of her words:
I saw old (my age) men who are still living the wet dreams of youth, decked out in gray beards on those wrinkled faces and leather and metal and waving Old Glory like swords, not like flags. Men who should know better, who should be at better places in their lives, men who should be making positive contributions to our young folks’ futures - but still searching to fulfill dreams that appear to be all they have left. Tragically, those old men’s wet dreams are now fulfilled only by sending off younger men to die. I am sad for them because they seem to have nothing better in their lives than feeding a hungry and hateful war machine, singing praises to tragedy and destruction, and feeding their young to the very jaws of hell.
Those grey-bearded men in their leather jackets and metal studs, with their phallic motorcycles with hideous roaring engines continue to send off young men to die like that, or to return, broken shells of themselves, with the rationalization that they have already “served their time, served their country,” so it’s OK to sacrifice their young to keep alive their never-ending wet dreams. It’s OK, they say, to send off their young to “die for their country” for they seem to have no idea (or simply can’t face the fact) that they are only pawns in a hideous game played by powerful entities that see them only as red meat, cannon fodder, targets, sinew and bones, body bags, graves, memories, economic factors of war production. But, of course, they’re all “for the troops,” and we aren’t, don’t you know?
But, as sad and pitiful as those men are, the death-cheering women are always the most disturbing, the scariest, their hardened and wrinkled faces showing hatred that mothers and daughters just shouldn’t show. I grew up with women like that, often wrinkled and wizzened by tobacco and alcohol and sun and poverty and despair in Appalachian coal country. They were my aunts and neighbors and cousins. Someone said to me, “Why do those women look so much more hateful even than the men? So much more disturbing than the men? So ugly with their hate?” It’s like they purposely put on makeup that makes them hateful and ugly instead of what I think (stereotyping, I know) most women want to be - soft and loving and kind. I answered, “Have you ever seen films of KKK women? Same impression - they appear to be so much more hideous because women just aren’t supposed to be that way.” They’re downright scary. Women are supposed to be motherly and loving and peaceful and all things nurturing and kind - not tools who gladly send off their young sons to die horrible deaths based on lies and deception. If women agree to this horror, what hope is there for the world? They feed their children, willingly, to an insatiable beast called war, to an insatiable beast that rapes them as they smile and takes everything they have, that robs them of their beauty and will send them to their graves in mass ignorance. On one level, I feel so very sorry for them. On another level, they are frightening as harbingers of the very worst mankind has to offer.
We will assemble at 1015hrs on the corner of High & Market Sts, West Chester, PA. On this date, the birthday of the world’s finest fighting force, we will assemble under Old Glory and remind them that without men and women such as us they would have no right to free speech. Of course, they use that right to disparage us, but so be it. Our friends at American Sheepdogs have been holding down this spot for almost a year now. Although almost always numerically out-numbered they persevere with patriotism and the strength of honor. It’s time to, once again, show the anti-American forces that we will not be silenced and we are not going away. Anywhere these anti-American forces gather we will counter them. Afterwards, we will hold court, directly across the street, at a local hall, where adult beverages and food will be provided. Leave the kids at home for this one folks, and remember, like they told me at Ft. Benning, GA all those years ago, “If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn’t prepare well enough.” Looking forward to standing tall, and looking good, with all of you again. Let’s Roll. Manchu.
Chris Hill
National Director
Gathering of Eagles
Dad calls from Iraq, son gets suspended
April 19, 2008
Eagles!
This is outrageous! Please e-mail or call these dunderheads in my home state of Texas!
Larry Bailey
http://www.parentdish.com/2008/04/16/dad-calls-from-iraq-son-gets-suspended/ Read more
Navy SEAL Michael A. Monsoor~Medal of Honor
April 19, 2008
During Petty Officer Mike Monsoor’s funeral here in San Diego, as Mike’s coffin was being moved from the hearse to the grave site at Ft Rosecrans National Cemetery, SEALs were lined up on both sides of the pallbearers route forming a column of two’s with the coffin moving up the center.
As the Mike’s coffin passed, each SEAL, having removed his gold Trident from his uniform, slapped it down embedding the Trident in the wooden coffin; the slaps were audible from across the cemetery; by the time the coffin arrived grave side, it looked as though it had a gold inlay from all the Tridents pinned to it. Read more
Two Maupin captors in custody
April 18, 2008
By Howard Wilkinson - The Cincinnati Enquirer Posted : Wednesday Apr 16, 2008 16:15:02 EDT
Army officials have told the parents of Staff Sgt. Matt Maupin that some of the Iraqis believed to be responsible for their son’s capture four years ago are in custody.
“I know that there are at least two who are supposed to be put on trial, if they haven’t been already,’’ said Keith Maupin, father of the Union Township soldier whose remains were found March 20 in Iraq by U.S. soldiers, nearly four years after he was captured in a convoy attack near the Baghdad airport. Read more
Military Order of the Purple Heart
April 17, 2008
Eagles!
Henry Cook, National Commander of the Military Order of the Purple Heart and a great friend of Eagles everywhere, has taken a fall on behalf of truth and honesty. Those self-serving people at the MOPH Foundation (not affiliated with the Order itself) have brought discredit to ALL veteran service organizations by their blatant mismanagement of the funds entrusted to them. The Foundation got an “F” in a recent evaluation of military support organizations.
Take a look at the ABC News piece here: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter
Please go to the MOPH website and send Henry a big GOE “well-done!”
And if you feel led, go to the Foundation website and give them a big Eagle “Boo-Hiss!”
PHSF@purpleheartfoundation.org
Larry Bailey
Murtha’s Office Calls Cops On Iraq Vet’s Mom
April 15, 2008
Eagles!
Remember the Eagle emphasis on what one person can do? Well, Eagle Bev Perlson has shown once again what one determined individual with some guts can do. Read Bruce Kesler’s column below for proof of it!
Well done, Bev.
Larry Bailey
On April 8, the Vets For Freedom, over 450 Iraq and Afghan war veterans, blanketed Capital Hill to meet with Congressmen and Senators.
Senators McCain, Lieberman, Graham, Inhofe and Bond, along with Congressmen Marshall and Johnson greeted them on the lawn and spoke of the importance of our mission. (See great photos here.) Read more
Outside the Wire
April 14, 2008
Eagles!
Here is an effort that we should all support. It shows the daily (and deadly) routine performed by our troops in the Sand Box (Iraq). I was so taken by the trailer that I ordered the set of two CD’s, which show all three of the productions. Check out the website at http://outsidethewire.com, and you’ll get a sense of what this is all about.
GOE has no interest in OTW (Outside the Wire) other than getting the truth about Iraq to the American people. OTW is a good step in that direction.
Please take a look! This is really good.
Larry Bailey
Veteran’s Rally, Bald Hill, Long Island, NY
April 13, 2008
April 13, 2008
4/12/08 Farmingville, Long Island, NY
Veterans and Patriots gathered at Bald Hill in Farmingville, Long Island this morning to honor veterans of all wars and to pledge to protect and defend the honor of our troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lee Zeldin, candidate for Congress in New York’s 1st CD was a featured speaker as he described what he intended to do in Congress to assist the troops in the field with funding for equipment and necessities. He spoke of his own deployment with the 82nd Airborne and praised a blue star family for their service at home while their loved one is deployed. He spoke movingly about his own experience when he and his wife, feeling burdened with the tasks of caring for their beautiful twin daughters who were born prematurely, ran into a blue star wife at the base commissary who was caring for six children by herself while her husband was deployed. That blue star mom, as if not already buried under her own burdens, offered help to Lee and his wife! The courage and perseverance of those families and their commitment to supporting their deployed soldiers was a revelation.
Pete Hegseth, Executive Director of Vets for Freedom, having just completed his nationwide Heroes tour came to offer that group’s endorsement of Lee Zeldin for Congress. He spoke of the tremendous improvement in Iraq and the need to complete the mission. He talked about how specific neighborhoods in Baghdad have made a remarkable come back from the terrorist infested areas he patrolled with the 101st Airborne in 2005/2006. He also described the ways in which officers like Lee Zeldin had their backs and kept them in the fight.
A wounded Marine emphasized the need to keep up our support of the troops against all domestic opposition to enable them to win this war.
It was a great rally attended by veterans of all recent wars from WWII to the present.
Some pictures are here:
http://tinyurl.com/6qblq6
Dan Maloney
NY State Coordinator
Gathering of Eagles
3rd Annual Walk of Honor, Long Island, NY
April 13, 2008
April 13, 2008
Who says patriots don’t know how to have a good time?
Not me, and I have the pictures to prove it!
4/12/08 - Rockville Centre, Long Island, NY
The family and friends of Lt. Ronald Winchester, USMC, staged the 3rd annual Walk of Honor in Rockville Centre today. Hundreds of friends of Lt. Winchester and our troops staged a four stop marathon of good times to raise funds for the 1st Marine Division Scholarship Fund and the Wounded Warriors Project. Lt. Winchester, a Rockville Centre resident was killed in Al Anbar province, Iraq, in 2005.
Starting off at 2pm at Stingers Pub, the celebrants proceeded to rotate every two hours to a new location. Raffles and 50/50 drawings were held, T-shirts sold, and much spirits imbibed, all in the name of raising funds for these charities.
Your intrepid GOE contingent provided and mounted Marine Corps and US flags at the entrances to each establishment that was visited. It was a tough job, *hic*, but somebody had to do it!
A great time was had by all as the pictures will show.
Pictures are here:
http://tinyurl.com/6zv9ma
Dan Maloney
Charlotte, NC~AAR
April 13, 2008
The Eagles Gathered at the Myers Park Baptist Church to counter the Vets For Peace sponsored appearance of Jason Hurd..Iraq Vets Against The War…
Supporters for the Jihad supports were few and far between. There were a few tired supporters which included a Blue Star Father who ask me not to identify him with “Those People Inside” who walked down to greeat us with the latest KIA numbers and his Blue Star flag. I ask him to quote me todays latest numbers for terrorist killed during combat operations, he rolled his eyes and returned to the empty meeting hall. The Vets for Peace had received word we were comeing to counter Jason Hurd and they hired two off duty Charlotte NC Police to “Protect” them from our Peaceful Group of Eagles. A total waste of money. The Precher for the church greeted us and thanked us for our respectful protest at his church. I reminded him no Eagle had ever been arrested at all the many rallys we have conducted nationwide. This effort by Vets for Peace was a total Non Event. Myers Park residents & citizens of Charlotte NC met us on the street with waves and honking horns. The highlight of the day come when a young Mother stopped to cheer us on and her two boys joined in out rally with flags and GOE signs. Young American Eagles in training.
Charlotte NC is a All American Town and the Gathering of Eagles has been well received during this and every rally we have conducted. We hold our new GOE flag high with honor, not the same can be said for the Charlotte NC Code Pink and Vets for Peace cannot say the same. Special thanks to Mark Chaswich & Irene Holland for setting the wheels in motion for this great rally.
New Forum
April 12, 2008
Don’t panic! It’s still the GOE forum, with all your favorite people and topics. We’ve just re-directed it. You can easily return to the GOE website by clicking on the flag in the upper left hand corner of the screen you will see.
You will have to re-register. (sorry folks, I’m not briliant enough to figure out how to transfer all that information!) If you have any problems with registration, just email us at goetalk at goetalk.com or you can email me directly at eaglesvt at gmail.com!
I hope you all enjoy the new loook and functionality of the forum, feel free to send suggestions and we’ll TRY to figure out how to implement them. Keep in mind we are not web mavens, so what would take some a few minutes to do, it might take us a week!
There’s lots going on over there already, so come and join us! Click on ‘forum’ at the top of this page.
Kathy
EAGLES NEEDED to Support 2008 Face of America Bike Ride
April 11, 2008
On May 3rd & 4th, 2008 World T.E.A.M. Sports (The Exceptional Athlete Matters), working with the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, The National Navy Medical Center, The Soldiers Angel Foundation, The Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund, and others will be hosting our 2008 Face of America Bike Ride, a two-day inclusive bike ride from Bethesda, MD to historic Gettysburg, PA to honor and assist servicemen and women who have been severely injured in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and any and all other servicemen and women as well.
If you are interested in participating in the ride itself or making a donation, please visit www.worldteamsports.org. We’re looking for Eagles to come out and support these riders as they leave Bethesda and head up to PA.
The itinerary for the ride isn’t set yet, but we want to give as big a sendoff and welcome as possible.
If you’re interested in meeting the riders in MD, please let me know via email (below).
If you’re interested in meeting the riders in PA, please contact Carolyn VanZorge (our NJ coordinator) at vanzorge@optonline.net.
Also, if you have a medical background (nurse, EMT, doctor, etc) and would like to support the riders, please specify your background to Carolyn or myself.
Remember, it’s not only our job to support our deployed service members, but those on the home front as well-ESPECIALLY those whose bodies are living memorials to the price of freedom. Come out and show your support!
Coby W. Dillard
Assistant to the Director
Gathering of Eagles
202.236.2767 (cell)
coby.dillard@gatheringofeagles.org
Gold Star families request GOE assistance
April 9, 2008
April 2, 2008
Once again, we are supporting the “California Gold Star Family License
Plate” Bill, SB 1455 (Cogdill / Denham), and we need everyone’s help.
As most of you may be aware, SB287 was killed earlier this year in the
Senate Transportation Committee. We are back! Senate Bill 1455 would
amend the existing vehicle code to allow family members related to a
person killed in active duty, in any war to apply for special license
plates.
This new bill was just introduced April 2nd, 2008, but a hearing date
has not been set by the Senate Transportation Committee. Our voices
must be heard!! Please write a brief letter of support to the
Senators listed below indicating your support with the following
message:
(just as you see it here)
Senator Dave Cogdill
Senator Jeff Denham
SB1455
1308 West Main St Ste C
Ripon, Ca 95366
“I support SB 1455, the California Gold Star License Plate Bill”
(Please include your name, address, city and state of residence).
Please do not wait; these letters need to be in immediately!!
This Bill will afford recognition to the families that have lost a
loved one who bravely served in our United States Military, and
sacrificed their lives for our freedoms. These are known as “Gold Star
Families”. The proposal is that a special California State Vehicle
License Plate be available, in numbered sequence, for the families
that have paid a premium sacrifice due to war – both past and present.
The Fiscal Impact is very little, if any, due to applicable fees being
collected at time of application.
This recognition plate will bear “Gold Star Families” across the
bottom, and “California” across the top, with a large gold star on the
left side of the plate, and the four digit - numerical identification
running left to right next to the Gold Star. The Gold Star dates back
to the early days of World War I. The idea was that the Honor and
Glory accorded the person for his supreme sacrifice in offering for
his country, the last full measure of devotion and pride of the family
in this sacrifice.
In California, we have several Environmental, Vanity, and Arts
License Plates to choose from, including personalized. This would be a
special recognition plate that specifically identifies the holder as a
Gold Star Family member. We are proud of our son’s, daughters, wife’s,
husbands, etc., that unselfishly gave of themselves in service to our
country. This will help identify the grieving families left behind. I
speak from experience, as my only son, and first born, lost his 21
year old life in Fallujah, Iraq, on a cold December day in 2004. He
was a Corporal in The United States Marine Corps.
The State of California is leading our nation’s state by state
military loss, with a casualty rate of over 10%. Several states (14 to
date) already have this type of plate available for their residents
that have suffered a tragic loss due to hostilities abroad. California
has always been a “trendsetting” state; we are falling behind on this
acknowledgement of gratitude. We have tried to capture the
contemporary spirit of our losses, all while trying to remain upbeat &
positive about something so painful to us. We are Gold Star Families,
NOT by choice. This would be a permanent reminder on our states
roadways that we, the unfortunate bearers have, and are still paying a
Premium Sacrifice – due to our loved ones paying the Ultimate
Sacrifice. The provisions in this proposal specifically identify
family member eligibility.
Awareness is a key factor in support of this proposal. Please mail a
brief letter of support today, and voice your support.
Respectfully,
Michael D. Anderson Sr.
Proud Father of The Late Cpl Michael D. Anderson Jr. USMC
Killed In Combat Action, Dec 14, 2004 Fallujah, Iraq “Battle For Fallujah”
