from toledoblade.com:
"A company of Marine Corps Reservists received a cold send-off from downtown Toledo yesterday by order of Mayor Carty Finkbeiner.
The 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., planned to spend their weekend engaged in urban patrol exercises on the streets of downtown as well as inside the mostly vacant Madison Building, 607 Madison Ave.
Toledo police knew days in advance about their plans for a three-day exercise. Yet somehow the memo never made it to Mayor Finkbeiner, who ordered the Marines out yesterday afternoon just minutes before their buses were to arrive.
?The mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people,? said Brian Schwartz, the mayor?s spokesman.....
carty finkbiener,eh?......that`s to easy...
i know when i would go to subway and some soldiers in uniform from the army base would be buying lunch i would be just terrified.....lol
who the heck is frightened by the sight of marines, or any other american soldiers for that matter, here in the u.s.?....i see u.s. soldiers and my heart fills with pride and admiration.....most kids think it's so cool to see a soldier in uniform.....
they frighten people?...well,the mayor`s stupidity frightens me....
the marines should have taken city hall instead of some vacant office building....
"A company of Marine Corps Reservists received a cold send-off from downtown Toledo yesterday by order of Mayor Carty Finkbeiner.
The 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., planned to spend their weekend engaged in urban patrol exercises on the streets of downtown as well as inside the mostly vacant Madison Building, 607 Madison Ave.
Toledo police knew days in advance about their plans for a three-day exercise. Yet somehow the memo never made it to Mayor Finkbeiner, who ordered the Marines out yesterday afternoon just minutes before their buses were to arrive.
?The mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people,? said Brian Schwartz, the mayor?s spokesman.....
carty finkbiener,eh?......that`s to easy...
i know when i would go to subway and some soldiers in uniform from the army base would be buying lunch i would be just terrified.....lol
who the heck is frightened by the sight of marines, or any other american soldiers for that matter, here in the u.s.?....i see u.s. soldiers and my heart fills with pride and admiration.....most kids think it's so cool to see a soldier in uniform.....
they frighten people?...well,the mayor`s stupidity frightens me....
the marines should have taken city hall instead of some vacant office building....
