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World War One memorial in Kansas City

For Kansas City we had another star speaker arranged through the Pentagon. Colonel Jeffrey Witsken served in Baghdad for one year and came to speak to our rally about his experiences there.

The only other notable thing about the Kansas City rally was that we had to rush through it, and we knew we would have to do that because we schedules the Des Moines rally with no wiggle room and we knew we could not be late because of everything we had arranged to be waiting for us in Des Moines.


So we arrived to much fanfare, as usual, hahaha. There was a pretty good crowd present and Col. Witsken was already there waiting for us so I went to talk with him a little about what he planned to speak on and what he wanted to say. We also had to inform him that we would have to move quickly because of the tight schedule.

Everyone there was really great though. We had Gathering of Eagles people, Free Republic people, vets, etc.

We had one blue star family whose son is so elite that I can’t even tell you who he is or what unit he is in. Must be pretty crazy huh?

Colonel Witsken talked at length about what it’s like for the troops over there. The idea is basically what you might expect; they love to hear from us. The Colonel also noted that while good news from home and receiving thoughts of appreciation from common Americans did a lot to life the spirits of the soldiers, the bad news they see on the television every night is disheartening to them. This just confirms the reports that I hear from everyone I have talked to who has actually been to Iraq, that the troops there largely want to win and feel compassion for the Iraqi people.

Diana Nagy sings her heart out for the crowd


The alsways endearing Debbie Lee

The ever resolute Buzz Patterson talks military stuff with these supporters