{"id":467,"date":"2006-09-08T21:04:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T01:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=467"},"modified":"2006-09-08T21:04:53","modified_gmt":"2006-09-09T01:04:53","slug":"red-friday-explodes-across-blogosphere-and-the-ottawa-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"Red Friday Explodes Across Blogosphere And The Ottawa Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well today was a fun day. While driving to the office I noticed a few others wearing red in cars while waiting at … ahem … red lights. I nodded to a couple and tugged at my red sweatshirt. I got a smile and a nod back.<\/p>\n

I actually wore a nicer red Roots pullover to work and the sweatshirt below while out to dinner with the family tonight.\"Red I also managed to finagle a red ribbon magnet for the back of my truck today. When they told me they only had French ones left, I told them I didn’t care and that we are a bilingual country.<\/p>\n

Call after call to Lowell Green’s show were supportive of the Red Fridays today. Lowell and his folks were working frantically to get prepped for setting up a Red Friday on Parliament Hill to get an aeriel photo of a sea of red to send to the troops.<\/p>\n

I noticed today that Matt at A Step To The Right has jumped on board, but when I saw a comment from Shere at Dust My Broom<\/a>, it really made my day.<\/p>\n

There is a call going (or already gone) from CFRA in Ottawa to a radio talk show host in Calgary and I suspect next week this whole Red Friday thing will be across the country.<\/p>\n

For those who ask “Why not Yellow?”, the response I heard today was that the yellow ribbon is a welcome home ribbon for soldiers. The Red Ribbon\/Red Friday campaign is just a way we are showing support to the soldiers and their families. It is likened to friends shaving their heads to show support for a friend with cancer.<\/p>\n

if your heart goes out to the families of the soldiers overseas, then wearing red on Fridays is the way for you to show it. Wear your heart on your sleeve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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