While in DC a week ago, luck, fate, whatever, but we had Saturday off from our reunion commitment and were thrilled to be able to take part in the Rally that happened on the DC Mall in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The picture here of the subway and of the happy couple at the Rally kind of portray the excitement of the day. First off the Metro ride in from Franconia/Springfield station was fun..normally a jam packed subway would not be fun, and too allow it to get over crowed to the point ours was would normally tax ones patience and hospitality for sure. I think it was the big story of the day in that long lines were at all the metro stations and when our train made the 5 stops before we got to the Lincoln memorial it just got more crowed and more fun as the trip progressed.
We were accompanied by our friends Jon and Courtney Dermott from Joplin Missouri who also attended the Marine reunion. They had told me a month before that they would be attending this on Saturday, but I did not realize just what it was all about...When Susan found out about it she said she for sure wanted to attend, and I love the idea of restoring our nation to what it used to be as much as the next person so we were on...
So back to the subway ride in, after the second station the train was full with every standing room taken. But three stops to go before the Lincoln memorial..doors open maybe 15-20 people were standing there...the crowd willingly just tightened it up, without anyone saying a word and in they came...Doors shut were off, total full for sure now I thought...next station, same situation, doors open 10 to 15 people in front of each door..The crowd shifted tighter and in they came...and the last stop the same thing...Absolutely no one complained one time, everyone on these trains were going to the rally and we all knew the more that showed up the better chance we had of accomplishing what this rally was all about...
We got off the metro at the Foggy Bottoms station which is 3/4 mile from the memorial mall..Not to mention in all the excitement we lost Courtney for 15 minutes...she had walked a little ahead of us without knowing it and then all of sudden Jon missed her and the hunt was on...we figured we had walked ahead of her so Jon went back looking and Susan and I waited...Just as he came back empty handed and maybe quite worried here she came back in the other direction...all that kind of stuff just makes good memories after it is said and done, but we were glad to see her and proceed to the excitement ahead. We were an hour late because of the huge subway crowds but quickly caught up with the excitement of the day...Susan remarked at one point how there was no litter anywhere to be seen at all. She asked a few people where they were from and they were from a lot of different states all around. I read a guest editorial today in the Journal Courier, from a Karen Hatke about this rally...it was well written, and dead on with content..If you have not read it click on the title above, and it will take you to her editorial .It was an exciting event, not neccesarily by who was there to speak, or by what was said, but I think the key thing is who was there to support this rally, like Us. the Dermott's, Karen Hatke, Tom and Susie Null from Dayton In. and all the rest of the 500,000 people who came to show their concern for our nation, and where it is headed. That want to pay more attention to future elections and how we vote. And pay more attention to the way congress spends money in the future, and what they spend it on for sure. I think we truly have reached a turning point for our nation...I think enough people have "gotten it" so to speak, I think that day, WE DID INDEED GET OUR COUNTRY BACK......
I guess we will know that for sure in the next two or three elections that lie ahead...
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