DATE: 10/01/2007 20:29:48 / MOOD: angry

Marines Barred From Filming Commercial on Streets of San Francisco

 

Tuesday , September 25, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

They're the strong and the proud, but the Marines aren't free to stand on the streets of San Francisco.

 

 

The Silent Drill Platoon of the U.S. Marine Corps wasn't allowed to be filmed Sept. 11 on California Street in San Francisco for a segment of its new advertising campaign, a Marine spokesman told FOXNews.com.

 

 

Instead, the elite group took its austere display to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area for the final segment of its "America's Marines" TV commercial. The group is on a two-month nationwide tour as part of the campaign.

 

 

Stefanie Coyote, the executive director of the San Francisco Film Commission, the group that denied the permit, was unavailable for comment Tuesday. Her office referred calls to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's press office, which did not immediately return a request for comment.

 

 

Coyote told KGO-TV that "traffic control was the issue."

 

 

Click here to read KGO-TV's report.

 

 

The film commission did allow the Marines' production unit to film the street without Marines. They'll be superimposed in the spot, KGO-TV reports.

 

 

Meanwhile, the Silent Drill Platoon continued its campaign, filming a portion of the commercial Monday in New York's Times Square during the early morning rush hour.

 

 

The platoon is documenting its journey on the Web site www.Our.Marines.com and plans to film portions of the commercial in Sligo, Ky., on Oct. 6, in the Grand Canyon and at Hoover Dam on Oct. 22 and in the Rocky Mountains on Oct. 30, according to the group's online schedule. The public is invited to attend.

 

 

Stefanie Coyote, Executive DirectorSan Francisco Film Commission(415) 554-6241stefanie.coyote@sfgov.org

 

 

gavin.newsom@sfgov.org

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DATE: 10/01/2007 19:42:02 / MOOD: cheerful

Definition of Honor

A veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard  or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his life,wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America," for an amount of "up to and including his life."

That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this  country who no longer understand it.  -- Author Unknown 

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