On September 12, 2009 people from all over the country participated on the March on Washington. People gathered in Freedom Plaza near the White House to march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol grounds. The march had been originally been scheduled to start around 11 am but got under way hours early due to the sheer number of people flooding out of buses and metro stations all over D.C.
The mood, despite the protest topics of out of control government spending; health care ‘reform’, loss of freedom and liberty, lower taxes, smaller government and the First, Second and Tenth Amendments was upbeat and cheerful. Complete strangers struck up conversations sparked by remarking on each other’s homemade signs and t-shirts or a simple ‘where are you from?’ Those people who were crammed into the Metro (if they could get on complete a train after purchasing their Metro Day Pass complete with a photo celebrating the inauguration of Barack Obama back in January) were simply forced to get to know the people less than inches from them. They all had one thing in common; a message to deliver in person to the government to ‘Listen’, to tell Congress they ‘will not be ignored’ and that they ‘have had enough’.
Crowd estimates vary as they always do. The media are generally reporting there were tens of thousands, mostly from AP wire reports. This is inaccurate as there were hundreds of thousands in central D.C. as those who attended can attest. Interestingly, officials including the Park Police have declined to give an estimate.
News Radio WORD helped 410 local residents get on one of the 8 buses heading for Washington from the Upstate. People from all walks of life, sporting their "I AM THE MOB " t-shirts went up and stood up for their beliefs.
There was such a great support and we thank all of our listeners for helping out with this project. Listeners from all over are calling in, e-mailing, and sending us pictures of the event. Click on the button below if you'd like to see the pictures provided by our listeners... AND you can even send some of your own! If you have difficulty loading the pictures you are always welcome to e-mail them to us at twest@entercom.com and we'll load them for you.
Because of the huge interest in the "I AM THE MOB" t-shirts we've made them available for purchse for you as well! Click below to order YOUR t-shirt today!
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