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To: D. Long who wrote (97158)	5/1/2003 10:16:43 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

Real shame our guys got treated so bad. The "Abe" was in Pearl for a Saturday layover last weekend. I was walking to Coconut Willies down Kalakaua and came upon a procession of anti-war types leading a parade the other way. As they slouched by, chanting "Get out of the Middle East," I couldn't take it, and started booing them. By the third "Boo," I was amazed to be joined by about twenty others in the booing. The marchers gave us a shocked look and scurried on down Kalakaua to the park. When I got to Willies I found a group of Sailors off the Abe putting away some beer. I talked to them. They were an ordnance gang that had been loading bombs. I told them, "I thank you, the people thank you, and your country thanks you." Made it a great evening.