Sniff...

I hate missin' an anti-war/anti-Bush demonstartion and have made more than my share over the last secveral years but I had a serious conflict and couldn't make it up fir this one...

But my how time flies... It seems like yesterday that I was riding up from Richmond with a bunch of folks for the 1st one in, what, '67 (maybe '68)... I still have a small notebook with notes I took from that day that shows up now and then... Seems that under the current crooks and chickehhawk war-mongers things haven't changed much since then... That is depressing... But what isn't depressing is the numbers of young college aged kids who are into the movenemnt thse days... It is very heartening to see that the war-monging PR machine just can't seem to corral the pro-human/pro-Earth values that are very much alive and well...

Did anyone make it to the event??? If so, how'd it go??? One won't get the real story from the Post or Times because both under-report these demonstartions... The one I attended in DC in January during the mad-dash-to-Itaqmire was so badly under-reported that the Post even ran a story the following August admitting that they had fallen into a "culture" (whatever that means) and had failed in questioning the reasons for the invasion... I wrote them and asked what they had done to "correct" their "culture" issue but never heard back so I reckon it's business as usual with them on these events...

I will say this, I attended the Moritorium during the Vietnam War, which BTW was the first time that my father who had supported the war marched against continuing it, and the numbers of folks in that were estimated at 500,000 and the January march prior to the insane ivasion of Iraq was larger... But the post had it as "tens of thousands" and gave almost as much print to the 50 or so Bushites....

So, if anyone was there I'd like your report to balance the medias...

Bobert