It was also open on July 16, 1995, the 50th anniversary. Two friends and I went and slept in a car overnight to be there at 5:29am. There were a few protesters burning something that smelled like pot to provoke the guards.
The next weekday someone called into Rush’s show and mentioned the protestors. The first time Rush ever personally insulted me was when he implied that everyone there was a deadbeat who had nothing else to do:)
I was there to witness a pivotal place in American history.
Wow! What a story. You were no dead beat! It is part of history.
In 2008, we saw some wierd looking minature clay “god” left by the fence about Ground Zero. We squished it.