Letter of the Day

Christine writes:

I'm glad to see someone has stepped up to start the planning of the Tea Party. I'm a wife of a retired active duty Air Force member. We proudly served our country for over 21 years and certainly don't agree with how things are presently going. I believe if we start making definite plans for the Tea Party on April 15th we can get the support. . . . However, at the present time we are missing the four most important elements to make our Tea Party successful: how, when where, and what. We are understand all too well the reason why. I would suggest we plan on meeting on the grounds of the Alamo downtown, the cradle of Texas Independence at about 4:00 p.m. If we need a permit for the gathering I'm willing to volunteer to pick it up at City Hall.. I would like to see if we could arrange the re-enactment of the fall of the Alamo by the actors. We need to see if we can get some speakers for the gathering. We need to get some churches interested in helping us out for the gathering because they can provide the microphone system. Maybe we could arrange some singers and bands for the gathering. I'm also thinking the VFW and the American Legion are two organizations that would probably be willing to help us out. However, the first things we need to decide on are the place and time to meet, and then we can start advertising for the support of the organizations. We should have a meeting sometime this week at a restaurant for anyone interested in being in on the organization of the major events.

In a follow-up note, she added:

I went ahead and made the following post on Facebook early Saturday morning. I'm a wife of a retired active duty Air Force member. We proudly served our country for over 21 years and certainly don't agree with how things are presently going. I believe if we start making definite plans for the Tea Party on April 15th we can get the support. However, I've noticed the activities on Facebook are listed as TBN. As of Sunday, we will have one month to plan our activities. At the present time we are missing the four most important elements to make our Tea Party successful: how, when where, and what. We all understand all to well the reason why. I suggest anyone interested in helping organize the major Tea Party meet at the Asia Kitchen, 1739 S.W. Loop 410, Suite 201-204, San Antonio, Texas 78227 (210) 673-0662 (http://www.asia-kitchen.com/location.html ) on Tuesday evening at 5:00 p.m. I'm suggesting this restaurant because the owner is a retired Air Force Chief.

So, boys and girls, it's coming--time to decide what you will do. Will you pitch in and help or will sit back and watch others. Let me translate that to what I really mean: Do you want to help or do you want to watch the corpulent pigs in government enslave your great-grandchildren with the yokes of crushing debt and soul-searing socialism? CHOOSE! Sharing Chinese food on Tuesday evening with those who will step up sounds good to me.