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Barbie2004 · Commander Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 338

Awesome!

SooZQ · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 3:05 pm Post subject:

Son of a VET · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 3:09 pm Post subject:

SooZQ, do you have a cd or dvd burner? If not do you have a "video out" on your video card on your computer or laptop? If you have a burner I am sure we could help walk you through the process. If you have a tv out on your computer, you can hook it up to a vcr (and the audio out from your sound card) and record it to vhs.
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Stolen Honor

Guest · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 3:10 pm Post subject:

i did a search on ohio yesterday and sent over 500 emails to university staff not just teachers but groundskeepers etc.
sent them the stolen honor free link. said these men deserve and have earned your attention.

SooZQ · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 3:26 pm Post subject:

Superb idea the powsnmias! I'll do that myself this weeK!
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Stevie · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 4:26 pm Post subject:

SooZQ · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 5:25 pm Post subject:

Stevie...

I wanted my display to show that Kerry had not volunteered to serve as he has implied. That he went in only after asking for what we suspect was
his 5th deferment! (Think he owes Cheney a big appology!) Of course
we can't "verify" the number of derferments he had because he
"WON'T SIGN HIS 180'!! I didn't bother with his purple hearts, etc.

On the middle panel I showed about his anti-war activities with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and I used the words from the description of Stolen Honor to highlight the effects of his actions on the
POWs. I had in big red letters..."This is the documentary the Democratic Party is trying to stop being aired. What doesn't John Kerry want you to see?"

Below that I mention the connections between Russia, China and
North Vietnam in sponsoring the anti-war activities in the U.S.
I used excerts from a 1995 Wall Street journal interview with NV's
Bui Tin...
Q: Was the American antiwar movement important to Hanoi's victory?

A: It was essential to our strategy. Support of the war from our rear was completely secure while the American rear was vulnerable. Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us.

Q: Why?

A: Those people represented the conscience of America. The conscience of America was part of its war-making capability, and we were turning that power in our favor. America lost because of its democracy; through dissent and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will to win.

I pointed out the eery similarities with Russia, China, and France and
anti-war activities today!

On the last board I had an open letter from Lt. Colonel Oliver North to John Kerry, which was a powerful reiteration of the issues. And on the
bottom of the last panel, a mention of the Oil for Food Scandal at the
UN and the evidence that is coming up that Saddam financially supported
Al-Qaueda. I had a picture of the towers in flames, saying, This was NOT
a dream. It is WAR! I pointed out how Kerry's rhetoric reveals how is
positioning himself to "negotiate" with the enemy like he did in N. Vietnam, should he be elected. The price would be too high.
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Stevie, You can go to www.google.com and search any topic and find
info if it is out 'there'. Avoid commentary and oppinion, unless coroborated with evidence. Also, the Resources and Research board is a wealth of info. For quick, dowloadable, printable handouts, go to:

www.operationstreetcorner.com

www.betrayed-vietnam-vet.info

Good luck! It is NEVER too late to have an impact.

Sue
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rbshirley · Founder Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 394

sround · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 7:40 pm Post subject:

This is the link to the video:

http://buttondepress.com/bostonmanifesto/

This page clearly states you need to get premission if you
want to use the doc (and probably) the vid for fund-rasing,
but you're not going to be fund-rasing. Why don't you bump
this and get the attornies involved--you probably are already
working with Steve Sherman anyway, but you need to do this
now...

Also, how about just some simple flyers with this (buttondepress.com)
url link on them? Just post them an bulletin boards with a "tear-off"
of the url going down the side. Students do this all the time to
sell old text books, etc.

Lastly, I would volunteer to burn these myself, but even FedExing
them would take too long and cost too much. Remember, even
if you don't have a burner on your PC, they are very inexpensive these
days....less than the price of a half a tank of gas...oh yah,
don't forget to ask the younger folks about helping too...you may not
know about burning CDs, but your kids and grand-kids will! Laughing

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Mission Accomplished!!

sround · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 7:58 pm Post subject:

Folks,

Just noticed Son of a Vet posted a different link
and that link is to a much cleaner version of StolenHonor
(ie, 320x240 , Stereo) but it's 65Mb. You should probably
download and distribute this version. Wink

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Mission Accomplished!!

Son of a VET · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 8:02 pm Post subject:

It has been cleared for us to make this video availabe to all we can.

Navy_Navy_Navy posted this in a tread earlier:

SooZQ · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:35 pm Post subject:

Here is a letter to the editor of the Columbus Dispatch, written by
CherylA, one of the participants in this weekend's OSC.