Posted on 03/18/2007 3:38:28 PM PDT by bmwcyle
The Gathering of Eagles, the squeaking of mice – Part 1
The morning started at 6:30 AM. Apple Blossom and I got up and headed for DC. What the day was going to be like was any guess. I have been going to local freeps since 1998. It started from the Saturday mornings at the White House to the fun at Olney and Walter Reed. We had heard that we had many on the way but it you never know until you get there.
The traffic was light and we found parking quickly. The day already started well. While going down Constitution Ave., it was clear that there wasn’t many moonbats in town. Our side had a large number walking the streets. We arrive at the park as the numbers were climbing.
I found several Freepers in the area and met some great heroes of America. The groups were greeting each other and getting interviewed with obscure press people. I don’t know where these interviews were played or printed. I know they weren’t FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN.
Race Bannon was the first to pass the camera.
I found this WWII Navy man in one of those interviews. He can still put his uniform on. How many of us can do that?
Other Freepers had arrived and were standing around doing interviews you will never read or see.
The gathering was going to start speeches before 10:00 AM. The speakers were fine but the real action was not in that field. The moonbats were gathering by the Lincoln Memorial. They were not alone.
The crowd was getting ready to listen but it was time for me to move.
On the way to front lines, I ran into these three gentlemen. They seem to have strong opinions on Jane Fonda and a certain Cindy. I can only image what they want to do with those signs.
Some vets were at the Vietnam Wall. The lines were going through metal detectors. This was the reason many of them had shown up. They were there to protect the people who gave it all for this country. Some of these men were there for the first time and some of them could not bring themselves to walk past the names on the wall. I just walked through the crowd thanking them for their service and welcoming them home.
do your thing
BTTT - I'm so glad you were all there for those of us who couldn't be. (raucous round of applause)
To be honest, after some of the recent stories, I'm very nervous about taking the babies around the leftists. But if there's a repeat next year, I'll stick the Dad with the under-10 crowd, and bring the group that can handle themselves to see what the Opposition looks like. Unless I have another baby.
(In Fayetteville, they were dressed as fairies, which is truly weird ...)
Good on ya!! New independent estimates put our side at 25,000 strong yesterday. A figure you'll never see on TV.
Thank you and all the others that participated in the Gathering of Eagles.
I've been waiting patiently for your report.
Excellent!!
It is not over. There is more.
Thank you for being there on behalf of all of us who wanted to, but couldn't.
Nice to see that WWII Navy vet.
My father was in the battle of Guadalcanal. Oddly enough he's more talkative about it since he got dementia. He's the stereotypical Reagan Democrat but as a cop, he never liked the 60's hippies!
There to protect what is sacred to them, even when it's so painful to themselves. God bless them all.
Great report! Thanks for standing in for so many who couldn't be there... but we were there in spirit.
BTTT.....
However, I've been a bit heartened today to see some fairly good writeups in papers like the WAPO and the Chicago papers.
Who's that fat guy??
Moonbats dressed as fairies actually sounds pretty true to form.
I don't remember any fairies two years ago, although there were some men in tutus.
Maybe there was a "Cirque du Soleil" theme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xFOyIaY_oo
Video I took of a WWII Sailor from WWI who was in the Tarawa Invasion
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