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Submitted by Sarah on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 4:43pm.
TJ Johnson, Austin Kelley and others vigiling at a busy intersection in Olympia this Thursday report that a Non Commissioned Officer wearing fatigues pulled over, got out of his car, came over, shook their hands and said, "I just want to thank you people for what you're doing." He told them that he had been deployed to Iraq twice before and found it to be a "hopeless situation." He said that he and other soldiers wished that they could speak out against the war, but military regulations prohibited them from publicly opposing the war. Olympia activists stands firm against continued military shipments through Port
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Soldiers Oppose the Occupation
Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 5:37pm.How can we make it so the Olympia Police Department will stop preventing the prevention of this war?
We need to get the cops on our side somehow. Or we need such an overwhelming show of support in the street that the cops do not have the means of exercising authority over our actions to stop the war.
Let's stop the war and prevent further harm to our soldiers, our military, our nation, the nation of Iraq, and the world...
wearing fatigues pulled
Submitted by The Fire Inside on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 5:48pm.Just for clarification, we wear ACUs (the weird colored camo.)