Vendors from the Farmers' Market said that they would donate left-over food to the protesters at 2:45pm.
After eating, some one commented "we need to get the number of the V.A. guys that called Frosty and tweet it out, in order to have people call him.
V.A. and other Government employees continuously passed by unimpeded and undisturbed by the sight of their countries combat veterans suffering, and not being helped by those who are tasked with this simple duty, showing what Americans really care about.
The struggle these men face everyday and the way they are treated by the American public is almost exactly the same treatment they have been receiving in front of this office, ignored by people on all sides, looked down on as if they asked to be so deeply wounded then forgotten, as the American people seem to be want to do.
Free our heroes! by Cory V. Clark
The only difference is they aren't currently being told to get a job, while the jobs they were promised have disappeared or never existed, because the very people who demand they get a job won't do anything to ensure that there is a job for them to come home to, much less offer the counseling and other services they need to help them transition into civilian life and deal with the horrors of war.
Veterans, occupiers, and members of the Anarchist Alliance sat talking amongst themselves, holding signs screaming out the issues and their demands, among them the simplest of requests for the people to send someone out to talk to them, to listen, to understand.
Ducky did what she did best harassing the police and DHS Special Agents with a million and one seemingly random thoughts and questions. Finally she gave them a reprieve, ending her attack on authority with "what is the legality of using sidewalk chalk on the sidewalks here in Washington?"
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