From what I understand there were supposed to be others who met at the edge of the base at 8:00 am. Then they were going to drive up together to the base gate...
The original thread for the counter-protest is here;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473538/posts
Were you in touch with Freeper snowrip at all? I can't imagine with all the pre-planning work she did (speaking to the officials and such) that she wouldn't show (unless there was a major problem...).
Anyway, it is disappointing...
I've also noticed that many freepers are coming onto the threads and basically trying to destroy the morale for counter-protesting Sheehan and such - saying we should ignore her... My thoughts on that are they were probably the ones saying that if we ignore Kerry (back in the 70s) he will just fade away. It doesn't happen - 30 years later he ran for PRESIDENT!
I was at the gate at 7:30...no one except the VFP were there. I'm not sure what happened. Perhaps general miscommunication. I hadn't even seen that thread until just now. Snowrip has been sick all week with the flu and couldn't make it. We had hoped everyone else would still come though.