Excellent postings and congrats to you! I too started lurking here and showed up for the March for Justice and the December rally at the Capitol steps. I went by train from NJ alone and was so inspired to find like minded folks there I eventually signed up here too. I read with relish all the unabashed Saturday protests at the White House, Kristinn’s showing up at the Church on Sundays when the odious ones attended to keep an eye on them and let them know we’re out here, freepers showing up at hearings on their lunch time. Alamo Girl’s extensive records on the clinton corruption, the awful tense times of the 2000 election and recounts where freepers went to Florida to help in the recount by monitoring. The court hearings afterwards when freepers like Barbara Olsen and her like explained what was happening with the rulings. I sat all day and night in front of my computer when 9/11 happened to get the story of what happened. So many memories and I owe so much thanks to Jim for creating a place for us all to congregate.
Citizen Soldier, thanks for sharing your beginnings with FreeRepublic. I’m in southern DE now, but it’s a shame we didn’t run into each other at Freeps over the years.
I have terrific memories of Freeping at the White House in 1999 and 2000 with the DC Chapter on Saturdays. The tourists loved to take pictures with the signs we had.
Thanks too for remembering Barbara Olsen, who dies on 9/11/2001, a passenger on the jet that crashed into the Pentagon. We lost so many bright lights that day.
Well, you can’t keep a good Joisey conservative down,right!
Haven’t we made the endangered species list yet?!!
Happy New Year to you!