They came to Defend Freedom September 12, 2009
Judi McLeod Saturday, September 19, 2009
One week ago today, 1.7 million ordinary Americans flooded Washington, DC to defend their country.
With thousands already gathered in Freedom Plaza in the early morning hours, the fifers and drummers who were to lead the procession to Capitol Hill. were ordered by district police to start the parade one hour and 15 minutes early.
Revolutionary-era en-actors William Temple, of Georgia, and Gene Hoyas, as continental army officer Col. Rash, led the fifers and drummers down Pennsylvania. It was a page come back to life out of glorious American history…the return of Paul Revere on a September Saturday that was no longer ordinary.
“By the time we reached Capitol Hill, a crowd of hundreds of thousands was already waiting to cheer us on,” Mr. Hoyas says on the YouTube.
It was a march into history that proved patriotism always trumps politics.
But more than anything else, the march proved in a most inspirational way that no trained seal mainstream media, no Marxist president, no matter how ruthless, can douse the flames of American Patriotism.....more http://canadafreepress.com/
