Though I tried to pay as little attention to the counter-protesters as I could, one moment does continue to echo in my mind. Walking in front of us was an anti-war protester wearing army fatigues - he could easily have been a vet - I didn't ask. A counter-protester heckled him, questioning his manhood... "Do you even know what balls are?" the man said.
But it's not the insult to the protester that bothers me so much. It's that the counter-protester would say such a thing, supposedly in defense of the troops in Iraq, when medical teams on the ground in the Middle East are performing an average of two genital amputations a day on our troops. I wonder how the guys on the tragic end of that scalpel feel about being defended in such a way.
On a lighter note, Rob has posted a bunch more pictures from the march on his blog, Life Through the Rectangle.
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