Quote: Animalman said: To my knowledge...war protestors aren't physically attacking soldiers or captains, they're just holding up extremely radical signs.
The Chicago Tribune printed a letter from the wife of a Marine in which she describes the "peaceful" actions of our "principled" and "pacifist" anti-war crowd:
Several of my fellow Marine wives...have experienced verbal and physical abuse in the past few weeks from so-called "peace protesters."
One woman was told from another car at a stoplight that her husband was a baby killer, and that they hoped he would die.
Another, and her young son, were yelled at and manhandled by a group of protesters as they were passing through the area.
Why did this happen? Because the wives either had a Marine Corps sticker on the car or a Marine Corps shirt on.
MONTPELIER, Vt. — A group of Vermont teen-agers threw rocks at a uniformed female Vermont National Guard sergeant last week, in the latest example of a service member facing hostility in the United States.
National Guard spokesman Capt. Jeff Roosevelt said the woman was not injured in Friday's incident, which took place in Plainfield, but said the woman had decided she would no longer wear her uniform outside of work.
"We are a very tolerant state and people in the military also expect to be treated with the same courtesy and respect that we show to others," Lt. Col. Scott Stirewalt, director of security at the Vermont National Guard, told WCAX news.
The teens blocked the sergeant as she went into a store and again on the way out, yelling obscenities at her along the way, Roosevelt said. The group also threw small stones at her car as she drove away, he added.
The sergeant said she believed the protesters had taken part in an anti-war demonstration in Montpelier that day. National Guard troops are often deployed to such events to help keep the peace.
"There were various profanities directed in her direction, along the line of '[expletive] murderer, [expletive] baby killer,'" Stirewalt said. "It culminated with some of the individuals throwing rocks at her, and as testament to her disciplined professionalism, she got in her car and left the area."
Roosevelt called it an "isolated incident."
"For every one that takes place there are hundreds of good deeds being done for Guard members," he said.
But Friday's incident isn't the only case of a Guard facing harassment in the Green Mountain State.
"A car drove up alongside and honked his horn and stuck his hand out the window and gave us the old proverbial, 'hey, you're No. 1 finger,'" Guardsman Brian Tomblee told WCAX news, referring to an obscene gesture. "I just waved back and said, 'Hey thanks for the support,' and drove on."
Maybe it's time for new thread: Liberals hate America?
Eh, this is semantics, but that isn't bombings or killings. Confrontations between everyday people over quasi-political issues is something that happens all the time, even before the war on Iraq was a twinkle in the eye of our President.
I think it's terrible, but I have a hard time attributing this to "war protesting" rather than just stupid criminal activity.
