Hello my favorite Stephen......I have a photo montage for you....
Well, this pretty much sums up the coolest, most awesome rally I have ever attended!! "Don't Tread on Me, and GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN!" That is just plain classic!!
Stephen, holy bejeezus, you shoulda been there. I mean HOLY CRAP, even TONY FRIGGIN' BENNETT was there, singing America The Beautiful. You just cannot beat that with a stick!! Yeah yeah yeah, so what, Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock...blah blah blah...but TONY BENNETT?!! Come ON!! I feel like I won the LOTTERY, knowing he was there!
(Side note: I know a guy from my hometown in Michigan who went to high school with Kid Rock. Big fat hairy deal. He's just a typical uneducated douche-bag apparently, from what my friend said). But God Bless it, TONY BENNETT....unbelievable. I'm just blown away by that!!
The silly thing is, we couldn't get NEAR the stage, we couldn't HEAR anything, and we couldn't SEE anything!! We just walked around waving signs and taking pictures of other people's signs. That's really all we could do---the streets and grassy areas on the National Mall were so clogged with people everywhere, stuffed together, barely able to move, breathe or say much of anything except "Moo."
The signs I loved the most, were any that mentioned Hitler in 'em. As you know, I used to work at the Holocaust Museum in DC, so whenever a politician (or anybody for that matter) starts comparing people to Hitler, I get rather pissed off, to put it rather bluntly. So, these signs made me cheer the loudest!!
Yes, okay, sure, this one is truthful....but the funny part is, he also wrote on the OTHER SIDE OF THE SIGN:
....and that's why I love it. The SARCASM FACTOR is something I totally tune-in to, and LOVE.
I actually made this sign for ME to carry around, which I did, but when my arms got too tired, I turned around, saw this dude, and thought, "Yep, he should have it." When I offered it, he laughed and said, "SURE!" So, he carried it around awhile. Notice the quotation marks around the word "SANE." I ran out of my Sharpie marker!!! So, it's not the best looking sign, but at least I made one.
And this guy, holding this sign, (that I also made), is my husband Pete....
Another great one....I just love it....I absolutely love it.....because the sign BEHIND IT was HILARIOUS...that one said, "Spelling C*unts, (an "o" was inserted before the u), get a brain, MORANS!" (I love that the word MORON was spelled wrong...the sarcasm is awesome).
And here is probably the most clever sign I saw the whole day....
I mean what the heck!! Ya can't blame a guy for tryin', right?!! hehehehehehe
But overall, I think I liked this one the absolute BEST....
I took about, oh I don't know, 80 or more photos while we were there, but these are some of the best ones. This rally was unbelievably awesome....it stretched from 7th street all the way back to the Washington Monument, on 15th Street!! That's 8 huge DC blocks, crammed full with people, and now they are estimating about 250,000 people were in attendance!! I don't think DC has ever seen a rally THAT HUGE, since Martin Luther King Jr., stood on the Lincoln Memorial during the Civil Rights Movement in the 60's.
Seriously, dude, you shoulda been there. You would have been absolutely blown away by it.
I also took Pete to the Holocaust Museum afterwards, to see where I used to work and introduce him to some of my former coworkers---and to my surprise, something happened that I did NOT expect to happen----I cried like a baby through the whole damned exhibition.
I cannot stress enough that my heart and my soul misses working there more than anything, every single day of my life. It was very hard for me to go back there, I haven't set foot in the place in several years.... those photographs of people in the exhibitions, they were like my "friends," you know, I mean, I saw them every day, and I wondered about them, (what was her/his favorite color, food, movie, singer)? Did he/she survive, or were they killed?
It's odd to say this, but I really felt like they were a huge part of ME too....I wanted every day to reach into those photos, to the real person, to hug them and help them, and somehow SAVE them.....and it just kills me, knowing I never could. Seeing those "friends" faces again, really caused me to double-over at one point, in such horrible pain...I cannot describe it...I mean, it's a pain that seeps through every pore of my body, every crack and crevice of my heart, every inch of my soul...and it hurts so horribly...it's the worst pain I've ever felt in my whole life.
I feel every day that I should still be working there. I belong there. I hate that I will never be able to go back to it, that part of my life (a huge part), is over and gone. I hate it, and I want it back so much. Have you ever had feelings like this too, about your career? Do you ever wish you could go back and re-do things, or rewind and accomplish so much more than you did?? Does that haunt you at all, like this haunts me??
So like an idiot, I cried the rest of the night too. I just couldn't stop crying. Pete didn't know what to do with me. I had a meltdown I guess. It was emotionally exhausting, to say the least, but I guess it's something I had to go through in order to heal the pain that still exists in my soul. I honestly don't know if it will ever go away. I hope, if you have ever experienced feelings of pain like this with your own life, that you managed to heal it somehow. I really do. And if you have any advice for ME, to figure out how to heal mine, please let me know.
Anyway........the rally was truly amazing, and I'm very glad we were a part of it.
Bye for now. I'll add more photos next time. Hope you had a fun Halloween!!
Love, Rebecca
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