You are delusional.

No boycott is "growing." The only influence you have in this matter is in your own imagination.

Hilton won and that's the way our market economy works. The restaurant didn't have a leg to stand on --- if they did, they certainly would have obtained a stay or injunction given the media publicity.

I stayed at a wonderful Hilton facilty last week in Pentagon City --- on the OSDs dime no less. The same facility also hosted the SF Warrant Course, a Navy Logistics meeting and an ARNG recruiting conference during my three day stay. There's no boycott, the hotel bar was packed with off duty personnel and your pathetic cause celebre has no traction.

Keep on tilting at windmills...

"IRR Soldier" you are a jackass - and probably a REMF to boot, if you are serving at all.

This guy is helping triggerpullers who came back with parts missing, and Hilton management was cold and wanted to ditch them - they wanted the space and didnt give a rats ass about the impact on the troops.

Your sniveling sneering reply shows that you probably aren't even a servicemember at all.

Keep bakcing companies that don't give a crap corporately about veterans - and pray to God you or somone you know never has to go through what those guys and girls are going through and get shfted by a big corporation on top of it all.

You deserve the hell you will live in.

Hilton operated in bad faith, that isn't winning that's cheating and cheating is for losers.

Why would IRR Soldier be so positively gleeful in his assertion that there is no boycott? It's almost as if he were ... anti-soldier, anti-Iraq, anti-Bush -- and pro-Kerry?

IRR's observations are facts, and we do have a ways to go to evict Kelleher and restore Fran's. Still, the American Legion has taken a position that may have some effect (google "Hilton dishonors veterans"), especially if it starts appearing on their webpage and spreads to VFW, Veterans Affairs, and beyond. We won't get justice from one day to the next, but should get it if we keep after it.

I wrote Ramona Joyce (rjoyce@legion.org) to thank her and the Legion for their efforts, and I think actions like that will help more than calling IRR names. We just have to show him.

IRR have you posted here under a different name? Has everyones bestest buddy Willy returned?

The name is different but the rancid smell is quite similar.

Why the hell does everyone who is "anti-Bush" linked to "pro-Kerry?

I'll never understand. I guess when logic isn't applied to the premise, logic cannot prevail in the understanding.

Corporate America. Bigger dividends for shareholders. Who knows what their pension fund includes for corporations? Are you "unwillingly" supporting Hilton and other corporations/businesses you are boycotting for their stance on the state of Veteran's Affairs?

Time to look at your investment portfolio...

MJ
prairie waif
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Correction to the first line of my posting:

Why the hell is it that anyone perceived to be "anti-Bush" is linked to "pro-Kerry?"

There's a word for IRR's diatribe. Schadenfreude.

The PR spin that Hilton is putting out is disgusting. Times must be really hard for the Hotel chain if they can't repay room service fees to the folks at Fran's. Maybe they needed the money for jet fuel--expecially since thier corporate office just purchased a brand new Gulfstream 5 to get thier execs and "Vegas whales" to meetings(golf)on time. Maybe with the new jet they can go see for themselves how old the carpet was at Fran's.

A couple things about the original poster. In case anyone doesn't know, the IRR stands for(in Military terms anyway) Inactive Ready Reserve. As in he may have been in the Military once, but he isn't now(probably stands for something else anyway. I can't see this guy ever being in the Military, although he does know the jargon). Second, if you put your pointer over his screen name, you'll see it links to a website called "counterrecruiter.net" which looks to be an anti-military website. Obviously we should all find it difficult to take anything he says seriously.

And I can definately say I won't be staying at a Hilton hotel or any of their affiliates again. Their actions are ridiculous and disrespectful, to say the least.