Post Ninety Seven - The March

WASHINGTON - Convinced this is their moment, tens of thousands marched Saturday in an anti-war demonstration linking military families, ordinary people and an icon of the Vietnam protest movement in a spirited call to get out of Iraq. (The Rest here, here, here, or here)

While it was definately worth going, and I enjoyed myself...I was a bit dissopointed by the outcome of the March. I am not trying to sound like a pessimist or anything, but I was expecting hundreds of thousands, milliions, and only tens of thousands came. Everyone held cookie cutter signs, chanted annoying phrases (what does democracy look like? this is what democracy looks like!), and the scene was overall chaotic because the parade route was not really set, and people were going every where.

Although alot of the people there seemed to be doing it cause in reality it's the "in thing" to do right now, I can honestly say that I met many very nice, and politically like-minded people whom I held great conversations with, including a woman from north Jersey, whom witnessed 9/11. I even made a friend, a kid from Boston, I met on the train into D.C.

Over-all, a good day with friends, and a beautiful day weather wise, in our nations capitol. Probably my last adventure of any sense before my trip to Italy, which is creeping up on my very quickly.