Veterans For Peace- LA Invites Public to Veterans Day Weekend Tribute at Arlington West

Friday, November 11th thru Sunday November 13th in Santa Monica
As Death Toll for US Troops Killed in Iraq Reaches 2,042

California Gold Star Families to Lead Procession of 100 Flag-Draped Coffins
Noon on Saturday, November 12th Will Be Highlight of Weekend

Call for 400 Volunteers to be Pallbearers

WHERE: Arlington West is North of the Santa Monica Pier on Beach
(Near Santa Monica Fwy and Pacific Coast Hwy.)

WHEN: Friday, November 11th thru Sunday, November 13th

NOTE: 400 Volunteers are needed at Arlington West just north of Santa Monica Pier at 9AM on Saturday, November 12th to carry 100 flag draped coffins on a procession thru Santa Monica.
To volunteer call Tonia at 310.455.2688/ tonia4@earthlink.net.

Just weeks after Americans learned of sad occasion of 2,000 US troops killed in Iraq, (2,042 to date) the country will mark Veterans Day Weekend Friday, November 11th thru Sunday, November 13th with ceremonies and tributes,

The Veterans for Peace - LA is sponsoring the Arlington West Memorial 'Veterans Day Weekend' program will run for three full days and two nights, Friday, November 11th thru Sunday, November 13th on the beach north of the Santa Monica Pier.

The emotional highlight of the weekend will be when a procession beginning at Arlington West will loop through the streets and sidewalks of Santa Monica, 400 pallbearers will carry 100 flag draped coffins. Over a half-dozen California Gold Star Family members will lead the march carrying large photos of their beloved husbands and children who were killed in Iraq War.

Crosses will be erected in the sand at Arlington West in Santa Monica by Veterans for Peace and volunteers north of Santa Monica Pier every Sunday for the last year and a half, as a tribute not only to the fallen U.S. soldiers in Iraq, but also to the countless innocent Iraqi civilians.

The flag draped coffins will rest in forefront, beside a 20 foot long board that names the dead servicemen and women. Visitors are invited to write the name of a soldier, any personal comment, and with a fresh flower, place an identity, photo to each cross and a candle.

Schedule for Arlington West Santa Monica Veterans Day Weekend
Friday, November 11th thru Sunday, November, 13th

WHERE: Arlington West is North of the Santa Monica Pier on Beach
(All events listed below are located at Arlington West unless designated)

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WHEN: FRIDAY, NOV 11TH

7:30AM: The memorial of over 2,000 crosses will be erected.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters has been invited to participate in setting up the memorial.

2:00 PM: Speakers will commemorate Veterans Day by reading the names of the soldiers killed at the top of each hour. A gong will sound as each name is read aloud.

WHO: Kevin McKeown, Santa Monica City Council Member

Abdul Henderson, Iraq War Veteran, featured in Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11

Tim Goodrich, Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran

Bill Mitchell, son Army Sgt. Michael Mitchell, 25, of Porterville, CA was
killed in Sadr City Baghdad on April 4, 2004 (along with ‘Peace Mom,’ Cindy Sheehan’s son Casey.)

Joyce Riley, Gulf War Veteran

3:00 PM: Aztec Dancers will perform

4:30 PM: Candle light vigil ceremony will begin, 1,000 candles will illuminate a field of 2,000 plus crosses and continue burning through the night.

5:15 PM: Iraq Vet, Lance Corporal Jeff Key will play taps for the memorial.

6:15 PM: Two films will be projected on the wall of the pier: A Line in the Sand and The Ground Truth.

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WHEN: SATURDAY, NOV 12TH

7:30 -11:00 AM: 100 coffins will be assembled and draped with flags by Volunteers

NOON: Procession will begin at Arlington West and loop through the streets and sidewalks of Santa Monica, 400 pallbearers will carry 100 flag draped coffins. Gold Star Families will lead the march carrying large photos of their beloved husbands and children who were killed in Iraq:

Melanie House, of Simi Valley, CA, husband, HM3 John D. House, 28, was killed near Ar Rutbah in western Iraq on January 26, 2005

Vickie Castro, of Corona, CA, son Army Spc. Jonathan Castro, 21, was killed in Mosul, Iraq on December 21, 2004

Bill Mitchell, son Army Sgt. Michael Mitchell, 25, of Porterville, CA was
killed in Sadr City Baghdad on April 4, 2004 (along with ‘Peace Mom,’ Cindy Sheehan’s son Casey.)

Joanna Kubik, of Long Beach, CA, boyfriend Lance Cpl. Shane C. Swanberg, 24, of Kirkland, Wash, was killed in Ramadi, Iraq on Sept 15, 2005.

The Figueroa Family, of Lance Cpl. Luis A. Figueroa, 21, of Los Angeles, Ca, killed in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, on November 18, 2004

Along with numerous Iraq War Veterans and veterans from many previous wars. Elected officials, veterans, clergy, and the general public are all welcome to join as pallbearers.

12:45 PM: Four wreaths will be laid at the Veterans Monument in Palisades park by veterans from all wars. Members of the interfaith community will offer prayers of honor and remembrance at the monument.

2:00 PM: Performers and speakers to include:

Ron Kovic, wounded Vietnam Vet and author 'Born on 4th of July'

Melanie House, of Corona, CA, son Army Spc. Jonathan Castro, 21, was killed in Mosul, Iraq on December 21, 2004

Vickie Castro, of Corona, CA, son Army Spc. Jonathan Castro, 21, was killed in Mosul, Iraq on December 21, 2004

Mimi Kennedy, actor/activist

4:30 PM: Second candle light vigil will begin.

5:15PM: Iraq Vet, Lance Corporal Jeff Key will play taps.

6:15 PM: Arlington West the Documentary, by Sally Marr and Peter Dudar will be projected on the wall of the pier.

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WHEN: SUNDAY, NOV 13TH

9:30 - 10:00 AM: Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Director of Interfaith Inventions, will lead an interfaith Ceremony of Remembrance to commemorate the lives of those who perished and to comfort those who remain.

11:00 AM: Filmmaker Bruce Royer will screen A Line in the Sand (A documentary about Arlington West directed by Leszek Burzynski)
WHERE: Laemmle Monica 4-Plex Theatre, 1332 2nd Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401.

WHO: Gold Star Father, Bill Mitchell, and Veterans for Peace member will speak immediately following the screening.

12:30 PM: The theater audience will walk a few blocks south to view the memorial first hand and enjoy light refreshments with the veterans, Gold Star Families and Arlington West supporters.

2:00 PM: Gold Star Mother Jane Bright, of West Hills, son Army Sgt. Evan Ashcraft was KIA in Mosul Iraq on July 24, 2003

Joined by members of the interfaith community who will speak and read names of the soldiers.

4:30 PM: The memorial will be put away until the following Sunday, when it will be resurrected, as it has persistently been displayed, every Sunday for the past year and a half.

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Anti-American?
It seems to me that America's enemies are the ones promoting this war for lies while wanting to curtail expressed citizen rights in a contract called the BILL of RIGHTS.

Hound these sheep to the back 40 where they belong!
By all means, visit Mr. Tom Saturday's website; DiscovertheNetwork. Here you'll find a black and white world where anyone who expresses that most American of values, dissent, is an enemy of America! Dare to question the actions or authority of your corporate and political masters and you ally yourself with such world villains as Stalin, Pol Pot and Castro. But here is the cliche mistake Tom Saturday and his ilk make and would have all of us believe. That all such "left-wing" dictatorships are the work of Liberals! Little can he comprehend that dictators, by their definition, are conservatives. Conserving power for the few, or the one, at the expense of the many. (Like usurping the power to declare war, or defrauding elections, or curtailing civil rights in the name of "patriotism". Sound familiar?)

"Naturally, the common people don't want war....Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." Hitler's former ReichMarshall, Hermann Goehring, at the Nuremberg Trials-1946

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

BTW, It's not Tom 'Saturday', just Tom. That was a cut & paste typo. Sorry, Tom. Yet another reason to put me on your 'hit list.
A few afterthoughts;

"Conservativism" IS a FEAR-based mentality.

If you think bush is a great leader,
needless to say, you are easily led!

America was founded by Liberals!
They had a word for conservatives in 1776;
"TORIES", loyalists to KING GEORGE!
Funny/sad how some things never change.

Great Liberals in history:
John Lennon, JFK, RFK, MLK,
Ghandi, Lincoln, Jesus.
All murdered by conservatives
Name some conservatives murdered by liberals.

And finally,

The hardest thing about being a Liberal:
the eternal struggle to wrest every freedom from the grip
of greedy, fearful conservatives.
The greatest thing about being a Liberal:
WE ALWAYS WIN! ;)

The above afterthoughts from: Spyke

Liberals, conservatives... what's in a label? Now you could say I was a good totting liberal or a conservative that believes in taking care of the poor, sick and old but then again, I'm just myself.
Mostly I'm a conservative.
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/23223.php
But the dialogue kinda ends if you just label things. Leftists, anti-americans, hippies... just as pointless as other all inclusive simplifications like nazi, fascist, blaa blaa blaa.... Stupidity and Ignorance are the major enemies in all their awesome might.
Just my annoying thoughts.

...that's GUN totting liberal....

was that harsh? Didn't mean to be mean. Most of us get fed up.
I'm insensitive sometimes, have no social grace whatever, am mean petty
and without any redeeming qualities.
( at this point, memories of my mom come, with that #8 cast iron skillet, attempting to get my attention)
Labels are like, uh...easy. Forgive my harsh, please.

'Ask not what your country can do for you'; ask what your country can do TO you.

I defended an E V I L nation, the united states of america!



http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/geralsosbeearmyf.html



Unworthy:



http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2012/11/824527.php



The fbi/cia Turn Civil Society Into A Cesspool Of Sinister Assassins (alt links):

http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/475166/index.php

http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v194/__show_article/_a000194-000556.htm

http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2013/11/18642.php

Affidavit:

http://sosbeevfbi.com/affidavit2007.html



Veteran's view of choke chain:

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2013/11/425610.shtml

Related, Police State, alt links:


http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2013/11/18647.php

http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v194/__show_article/_a000194-000557.htm



http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/475214/index.php

http://atlanta.indymedia.org/global/ominous-developments-evince-police-state



http://www.indymedia.org.nz/articles/1501


War Ethic:


http://venezuela.indymedia.org/es/2013/09/33022.shtml

Corrupt ROTC:
http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/part19-updatefor.html

See my reports that reveal the underlying corrupt culture which propels the usa's unjust & phony wars.

See my reports in the links below and in the final paragraph wherein the people of the world may recognize the threat to both their physical and psychological freedom at the direction of the fbi.
My service to this corrupt nation is reflected in the first two links below; my awakening to the horrors that the fbi/cia/dod spread globally is in a sense my salvation and my curse.

http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/geralsosbeearmyf.html

http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/historybook.html


http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/2013/04/20120509-mafia.jpga0lahp.jpg


Unworthy:


http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2012/11/824527.php


The fbi/cia Turn Civil Society Into A Cesspool Of Sinister Assassins (alt links):

http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/475166/index.php

http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v194/__show_article/_a000194-000556.htm

http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2013/11/18642.php

Affidavit:

http://sosbeevfbi.com/affidavit2007.html


Veteran's view of choke chain:


http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2013/11/425610.shtml


Related, Police State, alt links:


http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2013/11/18647.php

http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v194/__show_article/_a000194-000557.htm


http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/475214/index.php

http://atlanta.indymedia.org/global/ominous-developments-evince-police-state


http://www.indymedia.org.nz/articles/1501


War Ethic:


http://venezuela.indymedia.org/es/2013/09/33022.shtml

Corrupt ROTC:


http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/part19-updatefor.html


COINTELPRO:


http://barbarahartwellvscia.blogspot.com/2012/05/cointelpro-war-of-aggression-exposed-by.html?m=1




fbi uses conditioned response psychological technique against Targets:


From Harlingen, Texas

November 9, 2013

On November 8, 2013, the fbi increases automobile traffic assaults by operatives/thugs on me after my recent posts online; then, as I continue my posts at the public library the fbi enters into my locked car and turns on the lights. These crimes are usually followed by increased sleep deprivation, and true to custom the fbi applies extreme elf assaults on me on the night of November 8, 2013. I view the physical and psychological assaults as threats which are more the terrible because the fbi continues all other COINTEL actions against me that I have documented for twenty years (i.e. 24/7 physical and electronic blanket surveillance, home and car invasions, vandalism in my home and car, phone harassment, slander, etc.). The implied threat is this: stop posting or else. The assaults follow my posts that the fbi finds most disturbing.


See also: http://www.gangstalkingwiki.com/