[trooprally]

Protest Warriors is the holder of the permit at the main gate's corners, courtesy of concretebob.

[Mr] T

[Albion Wilde]

Great point! Here is another re-write:

Walter Reed FReeps - The DC Chapter of FreeRepublic has held a weekly troop-support rally at the entrance to Walter Reed Army Medical Center since March, 2005, to greet our wounded troops and their families. This rally began as a counterprotest to an anti-war "vigil" by Code Pink and other leftist groups that gathered every Friday evening at the entrance to WR. After facing off across the street for the first 40 weeks, FReepers and Protest Warriors captured the permits to all four corners of the entrance in 2006, pushing the anti-war "vigil" to an obscure site a block away ever since. Our larger and more visible rally now focuses solely on celebrating the troops.