Posted Sep 05, 2008 at 01:58pm
Peace Picnic
TWIN CITIES, MN, DAY 4 RNC- Our last day at the RNC was significantly calmer than the previous three. We parked the bus at the Peace Picnic at Harriet Island all day and joined in the festivities. The bus was parked in the center of the action and we had a lot of visitors. Three hundred people came through easily. The picnic attendees were there to call attention to the War in Iraq and advocate for a responsible pullout of the troops and a foreign policy in the future that thinks before they bomb. The bus was very well received by the picnic attendees but it was not without its critics in the park as a whole. At one point in the day several tour buses pulled up with RNC delegates who were at the park briefly to attend an event. They poured out of their buses right next to ours and about a dozen delegates came on the bus. It is difficult to say whether or not they knew what the bus was actually about but they quietly explored the exhibits inside. On the outside of the bus several of the delegates were more vocal including Illinois State Senator David Luechtefeld who expressed his disapproval of the bus.
We had a number of veteranss come through the bus that expressed their concerns over the Iraq War. Here are just a few of the stories of the many veterans against the war and their families that came through the bus today…
Bill Habedank Jody Inlow Wayne Inlow