Craig really got hit with URI this week that kept us from the May 1 and May 3 protests. I did attend a TN Democratic Party (TNDP) Town Hall for Veterans at the VA facility in Murfreesboro, TN about 20 miles SE of Nashville on Friday morning. I randomly found the “flyer” on Facebook and Craig really prepared for the event by reading the Project 2025 section on the VA. He was not in any shape to go so I went. It was a lovely day for a drive. We had thought that an event organized at the state level would have a bigger reach and thus more attendance which was not the case.
The flyer said Town Hall and Main Entrance of Murfreesboro VA. I drove in through the main entrance of the campus, parked and went in to the main entrance of the hospital. There was no event inside the main lobby and the information desk attendant only knew that people were asking where it was and she did not know. She said it might be at another property up the road a bit. I ran into two other people on the steps as I was coming out who were also looking for it.
It turns out the event was what I would call a rally at the main outside entrance to the campus which I drove through 15 minutes before start time and did not notice any activity. The organizer said she set the table up at 915 and perhaps a table was there, but there were no people or signage when I drove by at945. Because Town Hall implied something indoors to me, whatever was there did not register any potential significance.
This was the event. As with the event in Clarksville last week, there were more organizers than veterans. The TNDP just formed a Veterans Caucus led by a new TNDP Executive Committee member. This was the first event she had ever organized. She was pleased with the turnout and my expectations were obviously way out of line. I sent her a f/u email and offered to help her with her future efforts. Accuracy and clarity in flyers is important.
It is unclear if Veterans are not interested in being activated or if they are not spending enough time on line trying to find events to participate in. I think much is the latter.
I decided to starting posting on Facebook again about my activism endeavors so there is a place that those that I am meeting at these events can “find me”.
While I have been easily infected with viruses in the past few years, this is the second one Craig has had that I seem to have missed. I didn’t go to the Nashville protest yesterday because it was raining and I didn’t want to take any chances by lower my resistance in any way. He has been miserable.
Tamara Unleashed 