22 June 2018

Approximately 120 men, women, and children, gathered on the western edge of Depot Park in Kalispell.

Depot Park’s war memorial is in the background.

Serious young men.

Making signs.

Pauline Sjordahl always brings a thought provoking message.

Straight talk.

The wave of shame.

Getting started. Later there were plenty of honks, and a few fools in trucks who smoked their tires and tried to gas the wavers with diesel fumes.

Old Glory anchored the wave line.

Six persons, three signs, one message.

Montana Public Radio’s Nicky Ouellet interviews Cherilyn DeVries, the Love Lives Here in the Flathead organizer who pulled the event together on short notice.

One statement of fact, three commands.

Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

The Flathead Beacon’s remote controlled photographer emerges from his cover behind a stoplight pole. (Note to young photographers: captions are how a photographer converts his bad luck into a wry image.)

Professional journalists working the event.