How many DUers are going to March 24 events?

[LAS14]

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If we want the next generation to get involved and make things better, this is our chance to support them in a way we haven't seen since the Vietnam peace movement. They're speaking in Tallahassee - on CNN now.

Are you going to attend a March?

[Squinch]

1. There's one in NYC! I'm there!

[Phoenix61]

2. I'm hoping to get to DC. Fingers crossed. nt

[AJT]

3. If there is one in Madison I'll be there.

[LAS14]

4. Kicking in hopes of getting more than 3 sign-ups!!!!! nt

[CTyankee]

5. I'm sure there will be one in New Haven but I have already put in my time marching...too old

but I am there in spirit 100%.

Silly me, I thought our marching against the Vietnam War, for civil rights, for women's rights, would end these grievous horrors to our system and our lives...

Silly me...

[LAS14]

7. I do think the public demonstrations against the Vietnam war worked. nt

[CTyankee]

12. Yes, I think you are right. But the protests signalled to Nixon that the youth who would be the

victims of war were rebelling against him and his disastrous continuation of LBJ's war...no youth to sign up for fighting, no war.

I feel like I've been through a very difficult, but very important time in this country. Maybe I'll write about it in a memoir...

[DFW]

6. I can't hop a plane, ignore work, and take a 9 hour flight over to America for that

Some of us will just have to show our support in other ways.

[LAS14]

8. Maybe there will be a mid-sized, or even small-sized city near you. Keep a lookout! nt

[DFW]

9. Look at Loeningen, Niedersachsen

It's one of those "you can't get there from here" towns.

[LAS14]

10. Ah... I see. No, flying to the U.S. probably wouldn't be the thing. nt

[DFW]

11. Some of us

We just have day jobs whose requirements do not permit running over to another continent (even if it's the one on which I was born) any time we want to.

For that matter, I did do just that several times when Obama was in the White House (i.e. when I was invited there), but I had my employer's blessing. That would NOT be forthcoming with the current occupant (and rightly so!).

[LAS14]

13. Come on, DU, sign up!!! nt

[PasadenaTrudy]

14. I donated a chunk of money..

I don't go to marches due to social anxiety and fear of crowds. But I will be there in spirit!