[FreeTheHostages]

Wow, so soon after our last rally, huh? Don't put away those American flags just yet! I just had to get this announcement up. When the cat's away (attending today's Philly rally), the mice will play.

[kristinn]

This is a great location for a rally. Parking is available around the Mall, but Metro is best. BTW, Foggy Bottom Metro station is served by the Blue and Orange lines. For more info about public transportation, Click Here.

[Angelwood]

Thanks for posting the announcement for Patriots Rally for America V (and for everything else you do even when you are not feeling well).

Let's get as many people as we can out to support our troops, President Bush and this great country we all love and make the weekend of March 22-23 a huge RALLY FOR AMERICA.

[Bob J]

Good luck and THANK YOU DC.

[The Mayor]

I will be in Richmond next Sunday. Some members of our Church want to go. I am making up a sign with this on the top of it.

God Bless the USA!

It will look something like that.

[nicollo]

Sorry I missed you today. I had a free morning for a change, so I went looking here for today's Freep plans. Finding nothing, I headed downtown anyway, just to see what I might find. When I saw the commotion along PA Ave, I figured there must be sumthin' up... I was thrilled to see the Saint Patrick's parade!

I headed out of town at 1:30 so as to listen to the President on my way out.

I ended up yesterday evening in Columbia, MD after work to help a friend move. I had an hour to kill before he arrived, so I wandered about. I came across two young hippie-wannabe's carrying a sign. "Where's the protest, dude?" I asked. "Dude, they're a bunch of professors from the college up the street." [Howard County Community College]. When I found them, around 5:30, they were breaking up. I decided to join them, anyway, to see what fun I could have. By the time I parked and got over, they were all gone. So I held a one-man Freep. I wrote out "Go USA! Go Bush" on the back of a cardboard shirt box.

No sooner than my little sign was up and I got the middle finger from some girl, about college age. That was the only one for my 45-minute freep. The rest of the time was all honks and thumbs up.

A skateboard carrying 15-year old kid showed up and started to chat. He was of the indoctrinated, but he was very bright and attentive. Poor kid, he got a thirty-minute Nicollo lecture on American history and geo-politics. I brought him round from the reason the condos across the street are ugly and McDonald's are everywhere, to why we're going to war (answer: because the American people will it). Getting there we visited the American Founding, Alexis de Tocqueville, the Civil War, the Civil Rights movement, the Cold War, and the distrous whatz-hiz-name President from the mid-1990s. At the end, the kid said, "Thanks for a different perspective." I hope he takes it to heart, if just a little bit.

Sorry I missed you guys at the Lincoln. What a place to be on this beautiful day!

[Ligeia]

Heads up! Chris Core just gave the FR url to a caller looking for a rally in DC!

[Badray]

BTTT

[Eddie02]

Well, I took the day off and brought my family to your rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. We arrived just in time to hear the Pledge of Allegiance being recited with the words UNDER GOD left out. We were stunned. The people around us were stunned. Whose brilliant idea was that? I was standing next to a WWII veteran and I said, “I think they left something out.” He just shook his head sadly and said, “Boy, have you got that right.” The last thing we expected right out of the gate at a rally sponsored by conservatives was big dose of political correctness. I thought for a moment we were at the wrong rally–-you know, the one on the other side of the Mall sponsored by the people who are embarrassed to be Americans and are ashamed of our heritage and traditions. I was disgusted, and we felt like leaving, but we stayed because we supported the overall theme of the event. Nevertheless, that was an extremely disappointing way to start things out. So much for the “conservatives” at FreeRepublic.

[Eddie02]

Well, I took the day off and brought my family to your rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. We arrived just in time to hear the Pledge of Allegiance being recited with the words UNDER GOD left out. We were stunned. The people around us were stunned. Whose brilliant idea was that? I was standing next to a WWII veteran and I said, “I think they left something out.” He just shook his head sadly and said, “Boy, have you got that right.” The last thing we expected right out of the gate at a rally sponsored by conservatives was big dose of political correctness. I thought for a moment we were at the wrong rally–-you know, the one on the other side of the Mall sponsored by the people who are embarrassed to be Americans and are ashamed of our heritage and traditions. I was disgusted, and we felt like leaving, but we stayed because we supported the overall theme of the event. Nevertheless, that was an extremely disappointing way to start things out. So much for the “conservatives” at FreeRepublic.