A little before dawn this morning R J Del Vecchio sent me a link to Gathering of Eagles Has Antiwar Organizers on the Run!  (see my earlier post here) prefaced by these remarks:

I generally doubt that any antiwar protester is insane enough to try to damage any memorial to vets, but then again, it's been done recently to a MOH memorial, so we know there are true crazies out there.  This move of the protesters away from The Wall is a good sign, but at this point it seems like this gathering of vets from all over the country has taken on its own life, a way of showing how sacred we hold memorials, and for many of us, how we feel about supporting our troops in the field.  So even if the antiwar people took out a full page ad in the NY Times pledging to never let any of their people within 100 yards of the memorials, I'd still want to be there on the 17th.  And I will.

Del, it sounds to me like there's very good cause to be. By the time I was up and around for the day, Michelle Malkin had posted a link to this post:

Questions for Jalal
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IN MY PREVIOUS POST, "Bring Some Paint," a visitor calling himself "Jalal" leaves the following comments:

Comment #1:

People who attempt to stop protestors from exercising their Constitutional rights should be taken out and beaten.

Comment #2:

Anyone who tries to keep peace activists from approaching the Wall will be responded to. This is all I can say at the time.

For everyone's sake, I strongly urge you not to take away our civil rights including our right to protest against the Iraq policy and our right to gather at the Wall.

Comment #3:

I think the veterans should not try any funny business by restricting my people from the Wall, or things could get ugly. ...

[Read the whole thing, including the comments string, here.] 

Be there people. Be there.