It is very early in the morning.
My day began pretty much as it always begins, just a whole lot earlier. Our founding Fathers spent a lot of their energy in prayer and I dare do no less. History is going to be made today. The American people are awakening and it is time to stand up for what we hold dear and believe in.
We are not sure how thing will go for us. We've heard that there may be some organized opposition to our march. We need to be ready to represent a higher good.
Lynn Mitchell rallys the troops.
We're ready to go!
As we arrive at the pick up point, Lynn Mitchell is there organzing people to get on the buses and caring for hundreds of details. There are six buses and about 250 riders. She has a waiting list of fifty more who want to go.
There are at least three generations of the Karaffa family on board, two of whom represent the medical profession. There are people of all backgrounds. One thing unites us, a love of liberty that presses us to preserve it. I sit down next to a gentleman who programs the cookie maker at Mckee Bakeries in Stuart's Draft.
We're on our way!
David Karaffa of Augusta Conservative.
"That's a rising sun."
The sun rises as we pass Massanutten Mountain. We're travelling up interstate 81 picking up people in the great Valley of Virginia. We line up the buses in Strasburg and ride into Washington as a convoy!
Entering Washington.
As we cross the Potomac we become part of a great convoy of busses headed into the city. I'm told every charter bus in the state of Ohio was chartered today. Later I'll meet a family from Flint Michigan who rode all night to be here. At 4:00pm they repeated the long journey in the other direction. I tell them my Father grew up in Bay City.
The SWAC Girl bus!
We're dropped off a few blocks from Pennsylvania Avenue and make our way to the march. There are people everywhere! Everyone is converging on the Freedom Plaza area for the start!
Our exercise today sure will!
We reach Pennsylvania Avenue and a wall of people! Their chants reverberate off the buildings lining the way. Excitement is in the air... [to be continued]
Faces of Freedom: Ready to march!
Entering Pennsylvania Avenue.
Faces of Freedom: Lynn's Pictures from the Bus [click to read].
More Pictures from the Bus [click to read].
Next [click to continue].
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