My day in Crawford - Democratic Underground

VelmaD

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Sat Aug-13-05 06:50 PM
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My day in Crawford

I'm back in Austin in one piece after a very long day. Was up last night baking cookies and brownies to take with me...then up early this morning to drive up before it got hot.

This morning I volunteered at the Peace House. It was fun. I met a couple of real nice ladies (one of whom asked for my ginger cookie recipe). Mostly I did clean up and I gotta say liberals rock...it may have been the cleanest rally ever. :)

Anyway, while I was sitting out in front of the Peace House the funniest thing happened. A UPS truck pulled up and a guy got out carrying a huge box. Someone in Delaware apparently shipped Cindy an 18 pounds box...of Godiva chocolate...at least that's what it said on the box. I want to meet this person...and get them to adopt me. There was much giggling about the box.

After that the DUers started calling and checking in. There were quite a few of us there...ginbarn, sonias, NoPasaran, Blue Collar, carmarian, Aquarius, movie_girl_99, GloriaSmith...I know I'm leaving people out...sorry.

I ended up shuttling to the rally with ginbarn...in a van driven by one of my very favorite Texas state reps...Lon Burnam. I met him at the redistricting subcommittee hearing in Dallas just over two years ago. He gave me a hug after my testimony. So it was kinda cool to step up in to the shuttle van and do a double take when I saw who was driving. He was also part of an organization selling t-shirts with "Military Recruiters Lie" on them. *snort*

The rally was fun...Lisa Rogers from the Therapy Sisters sang...I sang with her a couple of years back when I was in the Austin Women's Chorus. If you've never heard the Therapy Sisters...you should...go here:
http://www.thetherapysisters.com/

There were lots of speakers...military families and vets against the war. It was all touching and sad and you just wanted to hug everyone.

Then we caravaned out to Camp Casey. There were cops all over but we managed.

I got to hug Cindy for my Dad. She laughed a little bit when I told her my daddy had ordered me to "hug her neck". She mentioned liking my "Center of Attention" t-shirt too...said she kinda felt that way. I only got to talk to her for a second but she seemed to have such a quiet strength to her...and a bit of humor. :)

I walked up and down the row of crosses they've put up with the names of soldiers killed in Iraq on them. It was indescribable. It's something sacred and very sad.

When Cindy spoke today it was magic. She was on fire. Really gave George hell. The crowd was so fired up and there was such a spirit there...it's hard to put into words. If you can go to Crawford and experience it for yourself...do. You won't regret it.

Anyway, I'm wiped out and I'm gonna crash. Just wanted to check in and give everyone a little update on what all happened today from my pov.

Oh, one last little bit of amusement...the counter-protesters were pitiful. There weren't many of them. The ones at Camp Casey yelled during a moment of silence for the soldiers killed in Iraq. And it pissed me off to have to be a good liberal and not start anything. There was this idjit with a sign that said "Don't be Michael Moore's puppet" and it was all I could do not to walk over to him and say "It's better than having Dick Cheney's hand up your ass". But I was good. *sigh* ;)

I'm gonna crash. It was fun but I'm done.