I said it was cold.  It was.  But we were warm.  We dressed in layers and we brought plenty of food and water.  I suspected it would be that way for many vets.  It was.  The weather didn't keep the vets from showing up, but it apparently drove the moonbats away.

Police no longer give official estimates but said privately that perhaps 10,000 to 20,000 anti-war demonstrators marched, with a smaller but still sizable number of counterprotesters also out in force. An hour into the three-hour Pentagon rally, with the temperature near freezing, protesters had peeled away to a point where fewer than 1,000 were left.

Wimps.  If the protesters had 10,000 to 20,000, I'd like to know where they hid them.  From what I saw, it was a few thousand at best.  Everywhere that I looked, I saw vets.  :-)

We did run into some protesters on the Metro when we were going home.  They looked to be about 10 or 12 years old.  They had armbands with Impeach Bush on them and a number of protest signs.

One woman who spoke at the Gathering of Eagles was the mother of a soldier who was killed in Iraq while helping to recover Casey's body.  She didn't have any kind words for Casey's mother.

Another speaker said that he wanted to remind us that there were porta-potties along the sidewalk behind the stage, just in case we need to "take a Sheehan or a Fonda".  :-)

We got up at 0530 this morning and saddled up just a little while later.  When we got to the Metro station, we ran into Debbie and Ron Stevenson.  Debbie and Ron are recently retired Air Force - Debbie just back from a tour in Iraq and 20 years served, Ron with 27 years.  My kind of people.  We spent the day together, took a lot of pictures (which I'll post on my blog as soon as I get back home and get the film developed) and generally enjoyed the day immensely.

The vets clearly owned the day.  The news reporting seems to delight in finding the one vet in a hundred who thinks the war is wrong and ignoring the 99 others who think we should complete the mission and bring the boys home victorious.  So much for "fair and balanced".  The FoxNews satellite truck was parked over at the moonbat express and never bothered to come see our little affair.  Once again, the media ignores all the good in this country and focuses on the handful of bad.

The protesters have a right to protest.  We gave it to them and ensured they would have it unimpeded by  a fascist government.  Now we will ensure that they don't steal it from our children through appeasement and cowardice.  They can jabber all they want, but we will be jabbering back now, demanding our day in the media, insisting Congress consider our views and demanding that our government uphold the Constitution that some of us fought and died for.  (Crossposted at Media Lies.)

Contributed by antimedia on March 17, 2007 at 05:32 PM in Antimedia, Gathering of Eagles | Permalink

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