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Well - apologies accepted, I guess. I'm still not sure what it's about.

We did have fun walking through the cindy camp. There's some money in that effort. Great big tents, rows of porta-potties, water being passes out, tie-dyed umbrellas everywhere, and very officious people directing traffic and telling people where to stand. (Apparently us pro-America types don't need to be herded and controlled like the cindy people). It was a very obviously well-organized event. Where do they go to get demonstration training?

One tattooed and pierced young lady with multi-colored hair was confidently telling other sign holders that if it were legal in a place for a man to go shirtless, then it is legal for women to go topless also. Equal sunburn for all, I guess.

So, if you've wondered where to find scrawny, old men and women with greying locks straggling down around their red, sweaty faces past their earringed lobes, and down to their Birkenstocks, that is the place to be.

(Now keep in mind, that I am a conservatively-dressed middle-aged woman wearing a "Support the Troops" button and an American flag pin). One older, bitter-looking woman was asking a companion across the road if the "thing" at the "other place" had broken up and did they have any "intel". I told her she could ask me, I was there. She brightened up for a minute and wanted to know what "they" were doing, singing and praying for peace, and she said something about Republicans. I told her I was a Republican, and she just kept on like she heard me but it hadn't sunk in. I finally told her that I was "them" and she got it. "No, I AM them!" My friend told her that yes, we did sing and pray, and she sniffed and looked skeptical. We tried to insert "justice" into the conversation, but she wasn't having any of it. Her mind was full and she wasn't going to hear anything we said.

One other man was into full rant mode at a man and his three children (who looked uncomfortable and a bit frightened). He was talking about the "vets" who were working their side. I listened for a minute and then asked him if he was a vet. He looked shocked and and said "no" and it took him a few minutes to get back into rant mode. I don't know if was my sheer effrontery at questioning him, or at my suggestion that he could have ever been a member or our armed services.

I was so impressed and moved by all of the pro-America people there. There ranged in age from infants to the solidly mature, all of whom braved the absolutely BRUTAL heat to show our support. The fine citizens of Crawford really went all out, and we need to thank them. There were GW signs, "We support our Troops" signs, American flags everywhere. I saw a man in one of Rush's GITMO shirts. I loved the shoe-polished horses. It was just awesome!