Some of it was too graphic for Easter Sunday. I asked the reporter to tone it down some - objectivity should be weighed differently because it was Easter Sunday. There was a poster at Auschwitz Woodside that showed piles of bones from a nazi concentration camp. Dumb bunny (per cp) floriduh voter recommended to the tv reporter to cut the concentration camp poster because it was too graphic while people were celebrating Easter as well as having Easter meals with their families.
Later that night, I slept in my clothes in Tampa on someone's couch because we were meeting Dave Simmons on Monday in Tampa. So, I wore my Easter clothes to Dave Simmons' office, no time to change clothes. (when we came back from Simmons' office on Monday, we went straight back to the Vigil. I stayed most of the night and finally went home. (that night, no LE followed me home that I know of).
HOSPICE EXPERIENCE EASTER SUNDAY: There were crosses everywhere. There were masses all day. There were people praying all day and waiting for somebody.... to...... rescue...... Terri.
It was an Easter unthinkable such as it was happening in the United States. The flyer naming Jeb as Pontius Pilate began circulating on Easter weekend. I have a copy here somewhere.
The rest of the Vigil I was taking Americans to the media side of the street so they could make donations to the Schindlers. If you didn't have credentials, you couldn't be on the media side. I helped people without creds get there and told them to stick with me and they'd get through.
Waiting day after day for a rescue (like the Katrina victims), one finds ways to help and I wanted people who came from far away to feel appreciated for coming such a long way. They were appreciated. They are still paying attention. They still want justice. The people who drove or flew in are my heroes. The politicians who showed up - that was just for show. The real Americans who came from all over, many from TEXAS are my heroes.
We were kind of like volunteer shepherds, wouldn't you say? Guiding new arrivals and answering their most basic questions, even telling them to move their cars or they would be towed. Do you know the tow guy lived at the apartment complex? He stayed at his complex and that's why the tows went so fast. He lived across from the Winn Dixie - those tows went fast without any warning.
That Easter day, nobody missed the irony and we were all friends as if we knew each other all our lives. Even some media people joined in. Early morning I was sitting tired and dejected, overwhelmed and in need of nourishment. I heard a sound and looked up and there was one of the cameramen from the big networks, not to take my photo but to offer a hand in charity and to offer me a little food. His charity and kindness belied the role of the media.
Have you seen the movie "Just Like Heaven"? Saw it last night. There's a pro life surprise in there.