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The Lone Vet
ARRESTED DEC 21, 2007

One day, standing on the Morrison Bridge, a woman asked me why I call myself the Lone Vet when many other veterans are supporting what I am saying with my signs.  This was my answer to her.

1.  I want to say things on my signs that I am proud of, things I believe are happening now.

2.  I want people to see one person--- week after week--- giving up some of his time to say, “Enough.”

3.  I want to give a voice to all the dead.

4.  We want to point to the hypocrites among us.

5.  We want to lower our flags to honor the living and not just the dead.

6.  We want our country back, the country I spent nine years of my life fighting for, (USN 1962-71).

7.  We want to look in the mirror and say, I did what I could----I did not just stand by and watch our country lose what we stand for today.

8.  We want our kids and grand kids to enjoy the freedoms many of us fought for by our service to this wonderful nation.

9.  We stand on the Morrison Bridge not for me, but for the future generations caught in a battle of Monsters.

I use the pronoun “We” because I know others join me in the battle against all monsters, foreign and domestic, I am not alone and I know this when I stand on my bridge in Portland, Oregon each Friday morning from 0730-0830, not much to ask.
From,
a citizen of the United States of America.
The Lone Vet
 
 

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