Very soon, you will see a great many people wearing red every Friday. The reason? Americans who support our troops used to be called red-blooded Americans, and are also acknowledged as the \u201csilent\u201d majority. While we receive precious little media coverage that gives voice to this position, we are showing our\u2028 love for our troops, our country and our homeland in record breaking numbers. When asking a soldier, \u201cWhat can we do to make things better for you?\u201d the first answer is, \u201cWe need your support and your prayers.\u201d Americans, like you, me, and many of our friends, simply want to recognize that the vast majority of us want to offer this support. Our idea of showing solidarity and support for our troops, starts this Friday by wearing something red and continues each and every Friday, sending a visual message that they may see or hear about overseas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I suppose it’s more tactful than a “kill ’em all and let G-d sort ’em out” T-shirt.<\/p>\n
Please help me get the word out: if every one of us will share this message with acquaintances, co-workers, friends, and family, I have no doubt it will not be long before the USA is covered in red on Fridays. It will let our troops know the \u201csilent\u201d majority is on their side more than they realize. Let\u2019s lead this visual effort, silently, respectfully, and with dignity, just by wearing something RED FRIDAY.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Count me in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ApplePieMom is the mother of a recently-deployed serviceman, and the proprietor of a new, eponymous, blog that is probably already on Janet Napolitano’s watch list. And she wants to see red on Friday: Very soon, you will see a great many people wearing red every Friday. The reason? Americans who support our troops used to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}