Check in if you protested the Iraq War

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48. 6 national rallies, split between D.C. & NYC + appx. 3 years of Sundays in a centrally located

park at a major urban intersection near a very popular entertainment and shopping district, the Country Club Plaza. A few hundred of us marched with coffins and combat boots through the Plaza on a few occasions; the rest of the time it was a basic crew of a couple of dozen regulars, including drummers, all of us with original signs. After early bouts with obnoxious and rude counter-demonstrators and about a year's worth of the occasional shouted obscene abuse from passing traffic, this scene settled into mostly supporting honks and our smiles and waving at supporters.

The only reason I quit that street-corner when we did was that some itinerant homophobe minister decided to co-opt us by bringing his family and loudly declaiming about The Bible, so it looked as though we were with him. I just couldn't take it without going over to him and trying to verbally kick his ass, so I had to stop going. Not long after that, that gathering ceased. I believe there is one other smaller one that still holds on on Tuesday evenings on a different very busy street.