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#1 Postby bfez1 » Fri Mar 21, 2003 6:43 pm

Human Shield - a different perspective
Last week, the Shelby County (Tennessee)Legislative Delegation hosted
a "Stand Up for America Rally." More than 1,200 people attended including
featured speakers Chief Justice Roy Moore, Adjutant General Mark Bowen
and State Auditor Beth Chapman.

Attached is a copy of Mrs. Chapman's speech, which resulted in five
standing ovations, tremendous applause and an encore. It's a short read
and well worth it.

I hope you enjoy it, as we continue to "Stand up for America!"
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Stand Up for America Rally Speech By: Beth Chapman I'm here tonight because
men and women of the Unted States military have given their lives for my
freedom. I am not here tonight because Sheryl Crowe, Rosie O'Donnell, Martin
Sheen, George Clooney, Jane Fonda or Phil Donahue, sacrificed their lives for me.

If my memory serves me correctly, it was not movie stars or musicians, but the
United States Military who fought on the shores of Iwo Jima, the jungles of Vietnam,
and the beaches of Normandy.

Tonight, I say we should support the President of the United States and the U.S.
Military and tell the liberals to go make their movies and music and whine somewhere
else.

After all, if they lived in Iraq, they wouldn't be allowed the freedom of speech
they're being given here today. Ironically, they would be put to death at the
hands of Sadam Husssein or Osama Bin Laden.

I want to know how the very people who are against war because of the loss of life,
can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who
are for animal rights but against the rights of the unborn.

The movie stars say they want to go to Iraq and serve as "human shields" for the
Iraqis. I say let them buy a one-way ticket and go.

No one likes war. I hate war! But the one thing I hate more is the fact that this
country has been forced into war-innocent people have lost their lives - - and
there but for the grace of God, it could have been my brother, my husband, or even
worse my own son.

On December 7, 1941, there are no records of movie stars treading the blazing waters
of Pearl Harbor. On September 11, 2001; there are no photos of movie stars standing
as "human shields" against the debris and falling bodies descending from the World
Trade Center. There were only policemen and firemen - -underpaid civil servants who
gave their all with nothing expected in return.

When the USS Cole was bombed, there were no movie stars guarding the ship -
- where were the human shields then? If America's movie stars want to be human
shields, let them shield the gang-ridden streets of Los Angeles, or New York
City, let them shield the lives of the children of North Birmingham whose mothers
lay them down to sleep on the floor each night to shelter hem from stray bullets.

If they want to be human shields, I say let them shield the men and women of honesty
and integrity who epitomize courage and embody the spirit of freedom by wearing the
proud uniforms of the United States Military. Those are the people who have earned
and deserve shielding!

Throughout the course of history, this country has remained free, not because of
movie stars and liberal activists, but because of brave men and women who hated
war too. However, they lay down their lives so that we all may live in freedom.
After all - "What greater love hath no man, that he lay down his life for his friend,"
or in this case a country.

We should give our military honor and acknowledgement and not let their lives be in
vain. If you want to see true human shields, walk through Arlington Cemetery. There
lie human shields, heroes, and the BRAVE Americans who didn't get on television
and talk about being a human shield - they were human shields.

I thank God tonight for freedom - - those who bought and paid for it with their lives
in the past - - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.

America has remained silent too long! God-fearing people have remained silent too long!
We must lift our voices united in a humble prayer to God for guidance and the strength
and courage to sustain us throughout whatever the future may hold.

So in closing tonight, let us be of one accord, let us stand proud, and let us be the
human shields of prayer, encouragement and support for the President, our troops and
their families and our country.

May God bless America, the land of the free, the home of the brave and the greatest
country on the face of this earth
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#2 Postby southerngale » Fri Mar 21, 2003 6:58 pm

Wow!

Thanks for posting.
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#3 Postby mf_dolphin » Fri Mar 21, 2003 8:20 pm

Amen!
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#4 Postby chadtm80 » Fri Mar 21, 2003 9:33 pm

Amen!
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#5 Postby Amanzi » Fri Mar 21, 2003 11:04 pm

I will give my 'AMEN' to that!
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#6 Postby sunny shine » Fri Mar 21, 2003 11:13 pm

Amen!!! :wink:
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#7 Postby blizzard » Fri Mar 21, 2003 11:19 pm

This speech should go in the books right along the gettysburg address and martin Luther King Jr's speech. It rings all too true.

A Big AMEN
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#8 Postby bfez1 » Sat Mar 22, 2003 8:35 am

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#9 Postby streetsoldier » Sat Mar 22, 2003 10:25 am

I am hoping against hope that a TRULY gutsy actor or actress reads this aloud, from the podium at the Oscars... 8)
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#10 Postby bfez1 » Tue Mar 25, 2003 10:10 am

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#11 Postby wx247 » Tue Mar 25, 2003 10:13 am

Thanks for bumping that. I just now saw it. Great, indeed!
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#12 Postby pojo » Tue Mar 25, 2003 10:13 am

Amen! I have goosebumps from reading the speech! Bravo!!! :D
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#13 Postby Rainband » Tue Mar 25, 2003 4:57 pm

AMEN!!!!!!


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