From: Bruce Beattie (bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 11:39:41 PDT
Hi Jack,
I think you have a good idea here. I can't personally comit to anything
yet, but I will
definetly make an effort to come if it is at all possible.
Bruce MVPA 23824
"Employee@MilVeh.com" wrote:
> Great story. Made me feel good. That's the way it
> should be too. (also gave me an idea, please read on)
>
> [My town: Chico, California a small, but growing
> college town of about 100,000 pop]
>
> Last month: Vets were turned down to fly American
> flags on the light poles on our main street to show
> our support for our troops in Iraq. Three of the
> council including our lady Mayor voted it down,
> despite many pleas from voters.
>
> The Mayor said and I am paraphrasing, "If we fly the
> flags too much that would not be right, it would in
> effect lessen their impact and we've already set aside
> certain dates they should be flown."
>
> For years we have no Memorial Day events sponsored by
> our city. We've never had a Memorial Day Parade to my
> recollection since WWII.
>
> The only major public events that ever honor vets seem
> to happen when some folks take it upon themselves to
> just do it, like the VA/Vets Workshop. However, it's
> not all that easy to get local MV'ers to come around
> because we have this reputation for being a little
> Berkeley. I suppose to a certain extent that is true,
> since we've got our share of wacked out,
> psycho-babble, nasty looking America-haters, cheerful
> defenders of terrorist causes and terrorist
> organizations (those would be our college professors).
>
>
> It's my understanding the local MVCC vowed never to
> return to Chico following an ugly incident when they
> tried to show their MV's. Maybe enough time has
> passed to let that one go?
>
> We've held other MV events since and its been well
> received, although only one grade school class of
> about 25 has ever attended one of our historic events
> and we have literally thousands of grade school kids
> here. That one 4th grade class loved the MV's and it
> went over great for kids and MV owners alike, but like
> I said, they were the first and last kids to show up.
>
> Chico is a beautiful place in many respects and there
> are a lot of fine people here, but we've let the
> leftist screwballs take over, mostly because they are
> so pushy and well organized. We're just individuals
> doing our thing, working and worried about paying
> bills and it takes a lot for us to mount an offensive.
>
>
> Now comes my pitch. (Ah, you knew I was leading up to
> something didn't you? lol) I want things to be
> different next year. You bet! I want us hold a
> veterans day parade, but if we can't get that far,
> then it would sure be nice for us to set up an MV camp
> somewhere in the thousands of acres of park land we
> own or possibly at our airport and invite thousands of
> the public to visit our rolling history. If you live
> anywhere near Chico, California and you would be
> willing to help this community jumpstart its
> patriotism please contact me.
>
> I would guess it would take 40 - 50 MV's to make it
> work and draw enough public. Then add in some Army
> tents, camo netting setups, some period uniforms,
> displays, etc. Hey, I think this could be fun and
> very rewarding.
>
> If you would be willing to come I would be willing to
> go before the council, get a game plan, secure the
> grounds and likely get some funding from the council
> for advertisement. Chico is always looking for a way
> to draw tourism here, so they might just look very
> favorably on this effort... if it was presented right.
>
>
> I'll repost this again in a few days and put it up on
> the website and contact the local MVCC to get things
> started.
>
> Cheers, Jack Lee
>
>
> --- kbernste32@aol.com wrote:
> > I suspect, below I'm telling the story of a number
> > of us,
> > but I can't resist -
> > The winter passed a little quicker this year
> > rebuilding our M35A2 wo/w. The goal was to have it
>
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