....To the best place
on the interwebs!
Thank you, Jim and John
for making all this fun possible!
[This is not a fairy rainbow, ok? ;) ]
Posted on 10/31/2015 10:06:34 AM PDT by gorush
Still remember the great hospitality party hosted by the TX freepers...
Still have two t-shirts...Used exclusively for those annual summer picnics in CT with the communist-supporting in-laws...
I stood on the balcony with my Oregon flag, right next to the Texas flag. At one point we thought we might have traveled the farthest...but, someone from Hawaii or Alaska beat us. I do think it was the FIRST internet generated political demonstration. My sister saw us on C-Span. It was glorious. No one knew how many or if anyone would come. Trying to connect handles with people was fun. We went to the mom and son Goldberg meeting with all the pizza lining the tables in the hall. I still have my T-shirt and have worn it to Tea Party and Gathering of the Eagles events.
I was younger then, 30 :(
And following FR at work in NYC with the one other conservative in my office.
I wasn’t born yet. But I may have been lurking. Found this site while reading about some White House intern story on the Drudge Report.
Lurker at the time... took the recount debacle to get me to sign up (plus the class of ‘98 was pretty scary...).
I had originally volunteered to carry the Wisconsin flag in the pre-event lead up. It then evolved into a veteran’s position...a situation I wasn’t aware of until arrival at the site. I certainly had no objections to that sentiment. But then that guy didn’t show up in time, or at all. don’t know. Anyway, I, with my flag, filled in and was honored to do so...but no stolen valor here.
You’re 15...?
AWESOME...! ^_^
Great to have u here...!
I took my son, then aged 9 or 10, from Richmond, VA to the rally. I had an old Volvo sedan, and I bought one of those white faced magnetic strips on which I wrote, with magic marker, www.freerepublic.com and attached it to the vertical part of the trunk lid, so everybody could see what we were about and where we were going.
We arrived, participated in the rally, and when it came time for the parade, which I believe was done state by state, the call went out for volunteers to push those who were in wheelchairs. Son volunteered and pushed a Maryland man in the parade. Not bad for his age, but he was always big. All his classmates in grade school nicknamed him dad, because he got big early. Now, for the chap in the wheelchair, it might have been an iffy experience, getting pushed around by an exuberant 10 year old.
Anyway, he has made me proud in many ways, but his performance at the March was a real high point.
My husband and I, along with our three sons (then, ages...16, 12, and 7) were there!! Met a lot of great Freepers that weekend. I remember riding the elevator with Drudge and Lucianne!!
Still Freeping after all these years.
Sorry... typing on the tablet is a challenge... make that Freeper not Freeper.
My kids still give me a hard time about missing trick or treat that year (they were 9 and 7 at the time) but we made it up to them on the way home. We bought a huge sack of half-price candy the next morning at CVS and they munched on it the whole way home.
One of my best memories of that day is walking around the Reflecting Pool at Lincoln Memorial at sunset after the event was over. It was unseasonably warm - mid 70s!
Hey, it was Halloween. So no offense to being called Creeper. Beside, I think we really creeped out the White House that day.
It was a great, historic day, Jim.
I’m glad to have been a part of it.
That rally was seen by a lot of people. They would tell us so all the time during the D.C. Chapter’s weekly freeps of the Clinton White House.
Walk on
Well, at least at that time .....
BTW, also saw you at the Tea Party rally here in New Lenox, IL summer of 2009. What a great day that was too! More than 10,000 people filled that park in New Lenox, news choppers flying overhead. Everyone was so nice, and that park was left as clean as when we got there.
Been there, done that, and I still have the T-shirt.
I have many happy memories of MFJ, from the trip to D.C., to having a “bad hair day,” to seeing all the people whose books I’d read or heard on the radio, to all those Dominos pizzas arriving at the Octagon Building.
I also remember policing up the field, and leaving it cleaner than we found it.
It started something that continues to this day, and will keep going.
Congrats. What a fine place and it took a lot of hard work to get it here and keep it here.
It is also going to take a lot of work to keep it free from the FERAL Government.
Remember hearing about FR in ‘05 when I was organizing the MM watch in October South of the Nueces Srip in Texas. Had a couple of “freepers” show up and tell me they were that.
I was busy laying out people to “stand the line” and get all of the “captains” briefed and really did not have time for them but wanted to hear more later.
Well later, they briefed me on the Free Republic site and when I got back from the month long illegal shindig, I looked it up and I was hooked. Took me a while to sign up (my trust factor is pretty low).
Out country is in need of Patriots and people to organize them into a common cause and to issue that call when need be.
If that time comes, I will be standing by to Free this Republic
5.56mm
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