Five minutes before the appointed 4:00 p.m. time, the rain
stopped after huge thunderstorms and floods forced cancellation of the Families
Belong Together event in Mason City, Iowa, part of the 750 protests nationwide
Saturday, June 30. At 4:01 Burton and I decided spontaneously to drive to
Central Park anyway. There we saw it: a bunch of people with signs held high: “Jesus
was a Refugee.” “Reunite Families.” We didn’t know what else to do, but we wanted
to be together, high water or not.
We introduced ourselves to each other. Some
women had driven in from Titonka, an hour to the West; a couple had driven up
from Jewell, an hour to the South, being stopped on #Hwy 35 because of
visibility. But they had persisted. The all day television coverage of tens of
thousands was important. It might not have included us, in the middle of the storm,
in the middle of the country, but we were here.
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