Wednesday, June 08, 2005

UPDATE ON MIA CROSSES Channel 8 picked up the story on the Monday night 10pm news. Evidently they found their way to my blog by watching Channel 6. In any case, of all the words on this page of of my blog, two were quoted: "street theater." They evidently were able to suss the fact that my memorial did not support the war, but only honored the service of the fallen who died, in our name, and mourned their loss in an unjustified war waged in our name. In other words, it was anti-patriotic. The assumption is, ipso facto, that you cannot support the troops without supporting Bush's war. This revelation passed on to the City of Tulsa, which forthwith removed the crosses. The tv reporter chose those two words "street theater" to suck the meaning and sincerity out of an act of mourning and remembrance that once again young man are dying, and killing, and coming home maimed and lost in a place only other combat veterans know. I would like that tv reporter and all that read this to know that I and my co-workers in this project are serious as a heart attack. Our "theatrics" will continue. We will not give up, we will not go away. We are Americans who love our country and act out of that love. We put that love into every cross we make with our own hands, and every soldier's name we letter on that cross. We didn't spend a few bucks and slap a yellow magnetic sticker on the back of our car. Yellow is not our color. 11:42:39 PM    comment []