They said that at about11:30am EDT
supposedly by 12:30 PM it hadf
swelled to about 4.5 to 5K.
The protesters were much more polite than I've ever seen them before. I'm sure having a large number of responsible adults watching their every move and countering their ridiculous chants took down their courage a notch or two. In one case, a protester, with wife, a 12-year old daughter and a toddler in a stroller, flipped the bird to the vets around me. They started telling him he should be ashamed of doing that in front of his little girl. The dad got mad, but the look of realization on the girl's face was priceless. She's not daddy's little girl anymore, I think.