“We are preparing for as many as 20,000 people, just to be on the safe side. People have been fired up over the past month, especially military family members, and they want to be heard.”
“For us the organizers of the vigil are phony-baloney, betraying the sacrifices that those, men and women make in Iraq, by demanding that we pull our troops out now and leave Iraq to go to hell. This is a publicity stunt.”
“We made a vow after Sept. 11 that we would not allow the anti-American left to do to us this time what they did during Vietnam, which was wear down the morale of the American.”
“These protests have a profound effect on the morale and the emotional well being of the soldiers, many of whom are fresh from battle and still carry the psychological scars from seeing their comrades killed and wounded right next to them.”
