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To: Libertina
I was on my way home and felt bad that I didn't have time to stop. (If I didn't do something on my wife's Christmas gift I was going to be in big trouble). I did hear that the good guys had about 70-100 people at one point but I didn't hear how many the bad guys had.
23 posted on 12/22/2003 9:36:24 PM PST by djwright
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To: djwright
DJW,

I heard the "100" figure also, but will only remark that at the time _I_ did a crowd count I came up with approximately 40 (+/- 5) on our side, and roughly 30 (+/- 8 on theirs). I'm no expert at this, but there are some simple procedures that can get one into the ballpark and I double-checked my numbers with another engineer there. After that our corner was "invaded" by some libs (some of whom I don't think were really quite aware they were on the wrong corner, and some who definitely were) whose appearance seemed only to increase our numbers.

About the time I left, a quarter to six, the numbers were approaching parity and I saw a number of libs walking towards the demonstration.

An after-action report over dinner from LibreOuMort and friend tells me I left at the nadir of the action. Things apparently got pretty lively after, with more turnout from the Fighting 570th, and our friend who'd never been to a FReep before was excited about it all.

I should have some pictures for you all tomorrow.

24 posted on 12/22/2003 10:27:52 PM PST by Eala (Sacrificing tagline fame for... TRAD ANGLICAN RESOURCE PAGE: http://eala.freeservers.com/anglican)
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