How Many Marched on DC 9/12?
I at least count 20 or 30..........
We walked the 1/4 mile from the Capitol to Freedom Plaza and the Washington Monument again later that night when the hustle and bustle of DC resumed. It was equally amazing walking the side walks later that day seeing 7 lanes of traffic for 14 blocks and remembering we were shoulder to shoulder stretched across all 7 lanes for the entire ¼ mile just hours before. Above is the time lapse photography of “part” of the March. Count for yourself but even though I ran out of fingers and toes at tens of thousands I see hundreds of thousands in these photos alone. Add to this the hundreds of thousands that already gathered beginning at 7:00am in the morning at the Capitol. Add to that the hundreds of thousands that didn’t join the march and but were present at the rally or stayed at the end of the procession at Freedom Plaza. And to that the thousands more that at 1:00pm were still attempting to get into Washington but due to the overload of their infrastructure were unable to make it into the march until later. Add these estimates of 1.2 to over 2 million will be realized.
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