Someone had the date of the last No Kings event written on the back of a sign: October 18, 2025. But it felt as if it had happened a few weeks ago. Elaine and I were at one end of a long city block — no chance to get a sense of the size of the crowd. Suffice it to say the crowd was crowded.
The most interesting moments: talking with a Marine veteran, and then listening to him talk with a retired drill instructor, who had arrived wearing his campaign cover and leather jacket. Both had attended previous No Kings events; both were disgusted by the current regime.
[Drill sergeant: Army. Drill instructor: Marines.]
Saturday, March 28, 2026
No Kings again
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Laramie, Wyoming's rally also had a good turnout of veterans and others.
Sometimes I wish it were easy to participate in a much larger showing, but I also know that it's important to brighten the corner where we are.
I ended up talking to someone who came to sit by me on a wall in the park. She and I grew up in the area at the same time (15 miles apart). She was born in Germany -- her mother was Czech and her father American in the army and has no birth certificate so is very worried about the SAVE act. We talked about how the soldiers in the area were treated badly during the 70's. The local university males didn't want them around and apparently local towns didn't either. Her husband served in Vietnam and her son in Iraq (both had PTSD). We have an off-cycle election coming up about judges and she mentioned how during the Vietnam war judges would send those who were caught with mary jane to Vietnam. That i want to research. i told her i still have letters from a friend who was sent to Vietnam and became a CO while there including writing back and telling us to keep protesting.
kirsten
ps we had a lot of cars driving by and honking in support. Not many of the T cars showed up this time.
I’ve never heard about pot and sending people to Vietnam, but I’ve several stories of service members being singled out for onerous, dangerous duty once there.
We had a handful of regime supporters gunning engines as they drove past. Many honks, many from trucks, but not as many as last year.
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