I attended the rally with six of my college pals and arrived in downtown around 11:30 AM. It is difficult to speculate an estimate for exactly how many people attended the rally, because there was a constant stream of people walking down Pennsylvania Avenue who were both leaving and coming. Perhaps the aerial photo attached will give an idea of the crowd size if you double the number of people visible in order to account for the people in the section from the Capitol steps out to the Washington Monument as well as those who had already left and those who were yet to arrive. We showed up about two and a half hours after the march towards the Capitol began, and left at 2:30 PM, about a half hour before the rally ended.
I found it entertaining that the Liberal media kept probing those they were interviewing about whether or not the crowd was behaving in a peaceful or rowdy manner. They kept stressing the number of "riot police" on sight as well. I guess we disappointed their expectations as to our behavior, because it was a very peaceful, friendly, and self-contained crowd and the police I encountered actually seemed to be enjoying themselves and were discreetly agreeing with the sentiments of those present. Despite the justified sentiments of frustration and anger at the current administration's socialist, big government, agenda with its anti-morals and anti-family leanings and the already prolific, tyrant-appeasing, no-backbone, foreign policies, there was also a spirit of optimism and excitement to be exercising the right of free speech along with hundreds of thousands of other patriotic, like-minded Americans during these crucial and alarming days in our country.
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