Tammara Rosenleaf speaking at Camp Casey - powerful !!!

[welshTerrier2]

i just watched this speech on Democracy Now ... you can watch or read this speech at the following link: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/22/1433253#transcript
Note: scroll up to access the link to the video

the video is very powerful ... i highly recommend it !!

here's an excerpt:

He visited Camp Casey last weekend, actually on Friday, and at that same day, there was a three-day holiday at Fort Hood, and there were other soldiers there, and they were all very curious to see what we were doing, and they were impressed. And I have heard from them. They don't believe we're weakening their cause. They don't think that at all. They think that they signed up to be soldiers to defend our rights, and one of our rights is the freedom of speech and the freedom to say what we want in our country.

Our neighbor here appears to have forgotten something very important that the founders of this country charged us with. We must jealously guard our liberty. We must actually stay on top of our leaders, because if we don't, they'll be on top of us. Some people talk about our right to free speech, but it's not just our right, it's our duty. When our country goes wrong, it is our duty to make that correction, and that's what we're here to do.

When my husband got ready to deploy, the military gave me a book. It's about this big, like this, it’s about this thick. And it's called “Surviving Deployment.” And I have looked at it, and it tells me things like make a list of the plumber, make a list of the electrician. If your toilet gets clogged up, call the plumber. I am 47 years old; do you think I don't know that? What I'd like to know is that at 4:00 in the morning when I wake up scared to death that my husband is dead or injured, who the hell do I call? And it's not in that damn book!

[babylonsister]

1. I saw Mrs. Rosenleaf speak this a.m.

on Democracy Now. You know, she's so right, so passionate, she had me in tears. As a vet's wife, I could relate. Dem Now was very inspiring today, though sad.