Posted on 08/30/2010 6:49:05 AM PDT by paterfamilias
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.
even this AM CNN and MSNBC were follwoing the meme.
FNC was VERY disappointing as they were repoting sharpton’s nothing rally as equal to becks mega rally.
BTW do we have an official REAL number? not cbs’ 87,000 before the rally started number.
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).
Well, the ground was uneven enough that some of the potties seemed to be on rockers!
When I got in and shifted my weight as I turned to secure the door, it started to rock, and then quickly settled down. When I came out, the next man in line was outside steadying it for me!
Nice man. Typical of the people there.
I was bawling my eyes out just watching “Amazing Grace” at home. It was absolutely beautiful.
Regards,
TS
A friend of mine who took the Metro to get back to Union Station to catch our bus said that, after the event, everyone in her car spontaneously broke out singing “God bless America.” She caught it on her cellphone and played it for us, and we all choked up.
What happened on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial was truly inspiring; what happened out among the hundreds of thousands who came was the true power of the spirit- and the real significance of the event.
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