[AmericanGirlRising]

I wrote this today to share my experience with other FRiends who haven't been to DC in the last few years. Pardon the long length, it was an action-packed weekend.

[Marie]

To determine the mindset of my opponent, I recently read Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and my husband didn't want its instructions exercised at gate A7.

My copy just came in the mail yesterday. I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking this way! lol!

[Fichori]

Well written.

Good read.

[Tainan]

Thanks and God Bless.

[billhilly]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and observations. You are obviously one of the tens of millions of Americans who were not protesting on the date of your visit. That is the untold story. Protesters know that they attract attention and emotions. Truth be told, I suspect that their emotions drive their lives. It would be horrible to have that as your fulfillment and purpose in live.

I lived in the DC burbs for the past thirty four years and saw and heard it all. Protest is allowed in this society, but it is worth noting that only a minuscule number of us are protesters. Those who are not build lives, homes, business, highways and the many other things that make society work. We have that to celebrate, an it is far greater than those things that some protest.

[CaliforniaCon]

Very thorough report; thank you for your efforts. I was in D.C. twice, once in 1963 as a child — it was beautiful as I recall then, hot summer days spent touring monuments and such —

The second visit was in 1971, as a young adult — when I drove through with a Navy nurse friend who’d been overseas and wanted to stop at Bethesda to greet some friends she’d met while on duty. Again D.C. seemed nice, at least the touristy areas. We did not stay long —

I’m glad I had the experiences I had — would not want to return to D.C. now for any reason. Such a shame the capital city is such a sewer for the most part — and one must put up with all these obnoxious dissidents at every turn. Too bad they can’t just be branded traitors and banished from the country.