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To: Dave Dilegge
Are there pictures of any more people? Past threads have stated that there were at least 100 counterprotesters, and an opposition media website seems to agree with this figure, but it doesn't look like there are that many. Where is everyone else?
26 posted on 09/30/2001 6:14:39 PM PDT by Pyro7480
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To: Pyro7480
There was a swell of people standing with us as the march drew near--mainly people who went looking for an announced counter rally by another group at the Washington Monument that was cancelled without notice. Most of them joined in with our counter-chants or held small American flags.

The sidewalk from 9th Street to just before 7th Street where the mounted Park Police were was two to four people deep when the Communists/anarchists rallied at the Navy Memorial. About 65 people bunched up by the mounted police rather than stand on the front lines.

Our numbers started out at about 40, then grew to about one hundred an hour before the march. We had just around double that when the march stopped at the memorial.

Whatever count the media had is accurate for when they counted, so I'm not going to criticize them for that.

I'm not trying to inflate our numbers--whether it is one hundred or two hundred, the yahoos had thousands more people on the street than we did.

32 posted on 09/30/2001 6:39:05 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: Pyro7480
Thanks from Pittsburgh PA
42 posted on 09/30/2001 6:53:34 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: Pyro7480
Are there pictures of any more people? Past threads have stated that there were at least 100 counterprotesters, and an opposition media website seems to agree with this figure, but it doesn't look like there are that many. Where is everyone else?

At the peak there were approx 200 and I was rather busy then and did not take pics except of the opposition. The pics you see here are earlier in the day. We were out there 9 hours and as we waited for the "parade" people would go get food, use the rest rooms or just go take a break along the walls and on the benches. I really wished I could of got some good pics of our side during the peak.

169 posted on 10/01/2001 7:44:02 AM PDT by VaMarVet
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