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Talk-radio host's patriotic rally bumped to Nautica 02/27/03 Brian E. Albrecht Plain Dealer Reporter Plans to stage a patriotic "Rally for America" in Cleveland may have hit a sour note last week, but organizers were singing a different song yesterday after finding a new site for the rally. Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Glenn Beck announced the rally will be at noon Sunday at the Nautica Entertainment Complex in the Flats. An effort by local radio station WTAM-AM 1100, which airs Beck's show, to stage the rally at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum fell through last week. Rock hall officials said space and safety concerns, and a political (pro-war) undercurrent to the rally, precluded the hall hosting the event. Beck said the free event - intended as a show of support for U.S. troops, not a pro-war rally - could draw 2,000 to 5,000 people from across Ohio and surrounding states. Though Sunday's forecast calls for snow flurries and a high of 38 degrees, Beck told his listeners, "I know it's going to be cold, and it's going to be hard to go out and stand in it. But I know who you are. I know what you believe in, and I know you're willing to do that to let your voice be heard." The event will not be held under the Nautica's new covered pavilion (shut down for the winter), but in a nearby area with a free-standing stage. Plans for the rally's 90-minute program include an appearance by Beck, patriotic music and local veterans representing several different wars. A Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition rally and march will also take place Sunday at 2 p.m. in East Cleveland. One 30-year peace advocate who won't be among them is Jim Fry, 53, of Richfield Township, who went to Iraq in 1990 with Sioux Indians to smoke a peace pipe with Iraqi officials in an effort to prevent the war. But Fry said that come Sunday, he will be at the Rally for America. "Nobody's pro-war, for God's sake," Fry said, "but in this case it's a justified and necessary war because we have tried every other solution there is, and they haven't worked." To reach this Plain Dealer reporter: balbrecht@plaind.com, 216-999-4853 cleveland.com