Month: August 2005

Just plain olde Madge being and binging her fat old self.

Patricia Fernos reads the crosses of soldiers who died this month.

Here’s the story from the beginning. Now that I’m home, I’m going to (attempt) to tell the story in chronological order. So first, today, I read for you a moving letter from Cindy Sheehan followed by the very beginning of our trip: A cap ride to O’Hare at 6:30 AM on Friday.

Civil Rights leader and personal friend of The Kings, Dr. Joseph Eckers Lowrey calls for our troops to come home, then several gold star parents give their very moving opinions on the state of the war in Iraq.

TECHNICAL NOTE: There is some messed up audio in the middle of this recording. I will fix it when I get back to Chicago. The gold star parents’ speeches are intact, so please just fast forward past the goofy part.

www.meetwithcindy.org

This is one of several speeches by parents of killed soldiers.

From Erik’s Rants
In 1989 the Peoples Republic of China sent troops into Tiananmen Square to suppress a group pro-democracy protestors. As the tanks progressed into the square one man in an act of defiance against the government that was killing his people, walked out from the crowd and stood alone in front of the line of approaching tanks. The tanks stopped. The driver in the lead tank tried to steer around the man, but he moved in front of the tank and stood there, keeping the tanks at bay for nearly a half an hour.

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After a very exhausting day, a wrap-up to the events so far.

Madge, Patricia and Fausto talk from bed about their impressions so far.