We are proud to be friends.

I also was on the Capitol Lawn while he was on Constitution Ave. 1.5 MILLION AT LEAST!!

Check out this new high resolution, panoramic picture, taken from the top of the U.S. Capitol building, demonstrating the extent and size of the crowds that the MSM reported as containing variously “a few thousand people” or “60,000 to 70,000 people” (see http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=6500).

I have been surprising myself of late. Never in my 60 years have I become so awake to the actions of our Congress and the direction they are taking this nation. Their actions, self-interests and corruption are taking this great nation down and we must stop the death spiral. I am still defining how I can participate in this counter-activity, I know I have to study and read and listen to the overwhelming evidence and then I must make my voice heard, I must stand together to protect our liberty. The Tea Party Movement appears to be my choice.

I rode to DC this past weekend with a bus load of professionals, not radicals, nor extremists, etc. but professionals from every career. Physicians, pastors, engineers, state Senator, teachers, contractors, etc.. Our only agenda was to stand and be recognized as disagreeing with our nation’s leadership. The issues were many, but we were not special interest at all. I wish I had the vocabulary to express the very full heart, the sense of pride I felt participating; just being on the bus was an education. Then standing in Freedom Square literally crammed in together like sardines in a can and singing our Nation’s songs and facing the American Flag with our hands over our hearts.. Tears streaming and hearts full of pride, voices choked from emotion… The March was started 30-45 minutes earlier then planned because our numbers were so large, the DC police was concerned for safety, etc. The walk was slow and deliberate and respectful. We were in awe of the massive buildings, the monuments, the White House and the Capital, HUGE… and we were there, WE WERE THERE, exercising our God given right to make our voices heard, standing on hollowed ground given to us by our Nation’s founders, the signers of the Declaration of Independence, the authors of our Constitution and fought to protect by our Nation’s military. So many American hero’s… So many people from every walk of life, united in the conviction that we must make our voices heard, we must take back our nation, we must stop our President and Congress.

And the chants, the voices raised united… “We love Joe”; “You Lie”; “Joe for President”; “Flip the House” and many more… Believe me a common theme throughout this entire experience was to vote out every existing Rep, Senator and President as they come up for re-election. This Grass Roots Movement will be one to be reckoned with since we are founded on our Bill of Rights, our Constitution, our Freedom, our Liberty.

A revelation was the disappointment in our media and their accurate coverage of this historic event.. Our numbers were huge and grew all day as people rushed to get to some portion of the event, whatever their schedules allowed.. Stories abounded about our numbers, about buses stopped at the bridges and not allowed in because of space constraints in parking these huge vehicles… Why does our media down-play reality?? Who truly owns our media and the coverage they report? Where is our voice?? NOT IN OUR MEDIA!! Fox had the most coverage and is appreciated. Perhaps our media has become too complacent and mainstreamed to realize the significance of this event.

But one stand-out point that must not be missed, we were not individuals at this march, each one of us was representing hundreds if not thousands of folks back home that could not attend for various reasons…This Grass-Roots movement is huge, this Silent Majority is silent no more…

My heart is full, my cup runneth over from this monumental event and I WAS THERE! I stood up!! I took action… I took my seat on the bus… A sense of pride fills my heart and a search for answers, tickles my brain. Complacency is a disease; I plan to cure in myself. I will research and study and work to expose the fraud, the theft, the lies. And I will be in the background observing and reporting to those politicians that have the intelligence, the integrity and the conviction to get our country back on the right path identified by our Founders, our Forbearers’…

This event has become one of my life-defining moments. I pray I can keep the momentum. I must.

I was there. I too met people from all over the country, from as far away as Hawaii and Washington State. I am not a good guesstimator but there were far more than 50,000 people there. The only problem that my sister and I had was this:

We were riding back to our hotel on the Metro on 9/11. My sister rec’d a call from a friend wanting to know all the details so far. She was quietly talking on her phone and I was listening to her intently to make sure that she didn’t say anything inflammatory. She didn’t. However, she mentioned that we met a lady from Nevada that lives in Harry Reids district. There was a professional looking woman (white for those who are interested) seated facing us working on a crossword puzzle-attractive and dressed to the nines. At the mention of Harry Reids name, her head popped up- she screwed up her face into a rage that I have rarely seen on anyone and said “ahh F**K YOU” My sister missed that exchange, I asked her to hang up and she did. As we walked down the stairs in Silver Spring-that same woman looked back at us and said “F**K YOU” again. I wanted to rip her throat out- so much for Kumbaya and free speech-but I said nothing. I was afraid to. And that scares me. She was a very angry lib. Shining example I would say.

We saw NO behavior like that in the crowd.

Another observation of interest: we walked all around DC on 9/11 to get our bearings. We went into several of the presidential gift shops to try and find tea shirts-(don’t know what we were thinking!) It occurred to us that rightfully we would find only Obama memorabilia. However, after we had that realization, we entered another shop across from the White House. There we found about 50% Obama parephenalia and the other 50% Conservative bashing, Bush bashing bumper stickers, tee shirts. I was appalled. We could not even find an American flag sticker to put on our posters. The only non inflammatory sticker that we found was one that said God Bless America. I am surprised it wasn’t on the close out table….

The event opened my eyes even wider to what it happening to this country. I feel very sad

you post sums up what challenges lay ahead. thanks for posting

regards

I don’t see how you can say Obama is trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory when he’s asked for a troop increase for Afghanistan.
Sep 15, 2009 – 8:29 am

More troops won’t do any good without Rules of Engagement that actually allow them to fight the enemy. 4 Marines died last week because their desperate request for air and artillery support was denied.

I would give you a link, but PJM doesn’t seem to be allowing it through. However, if you do what I did and Google “4 Marines died”, the first link that comes up is a story about it at StraitsTimes.com.

I don’t see how you can say Obama is trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory when he’s asked for a troop increase for Afghanistan.
Sep 15, 2009 – 8:29 am

More troops won’t do any good without Rules of Engagement that actually allow them to fight the enemy. 4 Marines died last week because their desperate request for air and artillery support was denied. See here: http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/World/Story/STIStory_427802.html

What a great group and a great time. I too took vacation and drove to DC, no one paid me, no one (except my sister who flew in from FL) asked me to go. It was reassuring to see that there are lots and lots of other Americans out there that are hugely concerned. Call us crazy all day long-we have each other

We could have found all the “Buck Fush” stickers we wanted-they were in no short supply. But couldn’t find an American Flag.

Yet we are supposed to stay mum while we watch our country being financially, morally, spiritually bankrupted. We are in a very sad time….