Another great rally yesterday for Universal Healthcare took place at Senator Evan Bayh's office in Hammond, Indiana.Here's a photo of Cheryl DeCero, an active Steelworker and Bill Cantrell, a member of the Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees.
The demonstration was a great success and we got our message across to Senator Bayh.
Thanks to all who were able to attend.
There were a few opponents to Universal Healthcare in attendance claiming that they didn't want a government run program.
The interesting thing about them is that those I spoke to had health insurance, and as a matter of fact, had Medicare which is a government run health system. Another told me that his health care while serving in the military was great. He didn't seem to realize that that too is a government run health system. Pretty sad, huh?
Another interesting thing that I noticed was their use of the flag that you see here.After some research into this flag, one of our members found the following:
This flag was originally used in wartime by the coastguard. It's a U.S. Civil flag. It was flown on civilian ships during wartime so that the enemy would know that they were not warships. The person who did the research believes that by flying this flag yesterday, our opposition feels that they are at war with us.
