Nice to have a nice snowy weekend at home in cherry hill, NJ to relax. one inportant project i am tending to this weekend is a little war protest that i hope others will become excited about, too.
i am taking little plastic army men and writing the words "BRING ME HOME" on a little piece of masking tape then sticking it onto the plastic soldier's base.
i should note that this is a TOTALLY unoriginal idea. i heard a story on NRP about a retired lady in chicago who took to doing this because she wanted to do something to register her discontent. in fact, here is a link to her story:
http://www.npr.org/...
i have about a dozen plastic soldiers in my coat pocket at all times and place them about randomly wherever i go: one in the produce at the grocery, another on the shelves at the videostore, the restroom at the gas station or a restaurant, and so forth. this seems like an awfully subtle form of protest, and i have to admit i get a bit of a high from doing it. i guess i hope that people will find these small toys with their message, and they'll get to thinking. that's really the modest goal of this for me.
i bought several 100-toy bags of army men at the dollarstore and my friends Andrea, Peter, Brian as well as my boy Greg have helped me out a great deal by taking a few dozen and spreading them 'round a bit. my mother was excited to help too. she took 50 because she says this war reminds he of vietman. we all know how that turned out.
So far, i have managed to dissiminate nearly 2,5oo of these little men (sorry, no army women yet....) all over the Philly area. Can we organize something on here to get some of the Kos community to get in in this? I am new to the site, so i welcome any feedback that might encourage this project. It feels really important.
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