Freepers and friends - you all did fantastic work today at Walter Reed! Thank you.
And I also have to tell folks reading this thread that a group of four (IIRC) Catholic University kids arrived after the GHF lunatics had run away. They were late getting to our Freep, having gotten stuck in traffic from Capitol Hill. They said that about 60 of their classmates had given the GHF crowd an earful at their Hill protest.
So Phelps' crew got hit with a double whammy today... first by 60 Catholic U. students on the Hill, and then by 31 (+/-) of us at WRAMC.
Phelps and crew are possessed of demons.
P.S. There was one Freeper whose name we don't have on the honor roll, and my memory sucks. BillF, BufordP, did you get the tall gentleman's name? He was helping us put up the MOAB and then he was trying to steady it in the wind before we took the legs off it? Was wearing a beige cap? Mr. Unknown Freeper, if you're reading this, sing out and get your thank yous. I'll be the first... Thank you for coming out and standing with us!
Oh, and another thing... Thank you to Smitty and his RT team, for providing the "sound system."
;-)
when are you gonna have the video up?
We did not get any pics of Fred Phelps himself. Did either of you? He was back behind the bushes in the church parking lot, talking to the reporters. He was wearing a red, white and blue jacket and a red cap.
By the way, THAT was what the WaPo reporter was all excited about, Fred Phelps in the flesh. Apparently he doesn't usually attend these things himself.
They hjave a network of students mostly at CU butr also with some contacts on other local campuses. They were talking about doing something like sending students from a given campus each Friday to join the FReep. One Friday the CU students would come, and the next week, for example, we might have a contingent from GW (for example), and so forth.
Need to HartlyBoy to the Honor Roll.