I agree! It was a special day. I, too, met people from all over & many of them were black. One was running for Congress.
Wish I would have seen the girls w/ the bracelets. That would have made a nice keepsake.
Beautiful post. Thank you for writing it.
My dad, sister and nephew went.
Dad said when they got there (ahead of start), they had to sit in the large lawn area off to the south of the Reflecting Pool area (i.e., south of those tree lines). Then he said when they looked back later (and when they had to leave - bus wanted to leave before event officially ended), it was crowded up to the crest of the Washington Mon. hill.
Glad all you could go.
Thank you for your report.
Gave me chills to read it.
This brings tears to my eyes. Thank you for your report!
This was the typical tea party crowd... very respectful, law abiding and well behaved crowd. We had a great time and everybody was pleasant, outgoing and of course... humorous! We always have a great time at these events....
Thanks for attending the event and for sharing your story.
Wow! I heard the bagpipe Amazing Grace on the Facebook live stream, but you explained so beautifully how wonderful it must have been to be there.
They had previously been trashing Beck.
They're probably still liberals, but to a much lesser extent.
Saw the CNN coverage yesterday. Could have sworn they were
covering a KKK rally.
God bless you for being there. My wife and I watched it on C-SPAN and it was great. I watched some of the Al Sharpton event and it was stunning to note the difference in content, tone and audience enthusiasm.
Yeah, but how many fights, arrests and racial epithets? s/
I was there also. And you are spot on with your “under the trees” point. That was valuable real estate!
Also, regarding the porta-potties...there seemed to be plenty of them with 20-30-40 of them lined up at a time.
What I noticed about them was they were usually placed in a line along a pathway/sidewalk. There were always lines of folks waiting, with a line forming in front of each potty. They waiters had to start their line across the sidewalk to allow the thru traffic to get by thereby creating a gap of 5-7 feet between the “next in line” and the potty door. When the person in the potty exited, it was up to the next person in line to negotiate the considerable crossflow of passersby to get into the potty. It was a great opportunity for a passerby to deftly slip into the “open” potty....thereby jumping line. Somebody of less than honorable intentions could’ve taken advantage of the situation, and upset a lot of people. I’m sure a person with an “entitlement mentality” would’ve felt they had the right to jump the line.
BUT, I never saw it happen! (I visited the potties several times that day).
Regards,
TS
Was the guy handing out the copies of the Constitution a good-looking slender guy with a shaved head? If so, he might have been Jim, the head of our local Tea Party group. One of our promotions is handing out copies of the Constitution. I know that Jim and a friend of his rode their bikes to the rally. He is a former Marine.
o.k. I don’t have stock in anything BUT maybe I betta get on the bandwagon and invest in Kleenex...cuz I’m sobbing!
There were two guys who walked by, one white and one black, and they were each holding a sign with an arrow pointing to the other, and both signs said, "Do we look racist"?
Many from the crowd took their pictures and had a good laugh and the two men, from North Carolina, were interviewed by a Canadian station.
It was a fantastic day and well worth the time and money it took to attend!
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My wife and I were there as well, and we know of four other friends who attended but trying to meet up with them in the crowd was pointless not to mention physically taxing in that heat and humidity. You are absolutely right about the people sitting in the shade. What a wonderful gathering of patriots.
It was a privilege for us to part of such a great crowd at this memorable event.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I hope this is another FReeper post page that lasts forever. I watched it all on FB and Cspan at the same time so I could see it in each room as I went about my duties in the house. But all these little observations from those who were there make it much more memorable. What a wonderful event and what great memories you, who attended, must have. I am so glad you shared with those of us who could not be there. I am sure there is nothing that has compared to this, ever!