LOL...it WAS cold that morning...you guys must have froze your tail off on those motorbikes...we were there around 0730 with the DC Chapter (what an amazing bunch of dedicated Americans they are) and it was damn cold. We were in front of Walter Reed the night before, and it was miserably cold, with sleet and freezing rain!
But I'll tell you, I wasn't about to even utter a peep.
We had these guys out there, and I didn't hear them bitching (a lot) so I certainly wasn't about to puss out...:)
That was a real privilege to meet those guys. I still think they nearly single-handedly saved us from ending up with the scumbag Kerry as President.
This wasn't YOU was it?
Here we were at 0730...
This is where we ended up before the moonbats came over...
Here was a group of Marines who hung out with us, they had been over in Iraq together were now back stateside and were paying their respects to one of their fallen buddies in Arlington when they saw us and came over to join the counter-protest with us...
This was on the front page of the Washington Post the next day. One of the moonbats was dressed in fatigues and brandishing his DD214, saying something like "...the Bush administration was responsible for the deaths of soldiers in Iraq because they didn't provide them with armored vehicles..." when this guy leaped at him and had to be restrained by his buddy. He yelled at him something like "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE **** YOU"RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU WEREN'T THERE-I WAS THERE..."
These guys were great. We had a hilarious experience while waiting for the moonbats to come over the bridge...
As we waited, a white van came roaring over the bridge, came to a stop and some guys got out with some boxes which they carried down the embankment at the end of the bridge, then they came back up, jumped in the van and roared off.
We all saw it, and said "What the hell was that? What did they put down there?" It was obvious we all thought it might have been explosives. While we pondered this, three of the Marines just ran across the road to check it out while two of their buddies called after them "What the hell are you guys doing? It could be a bomb for Christ's sake!"
A few minutes later, they came running back with big grins on their faces...they said the boxes contained anti-war and Marxist literature which the moonbats apparently hoped to hand out to protesters coming across the bridge. The Marines said "We took care of it...we pissed all over them!" We just fell out laughing...
A little later, we saw some moonbats go down there, and you could see them daintily picking up the wet papers in puzzlement...:)