i'm sad i missed this yesterday, just purely for the aesthetic:

At 5:25 p.m., at least 100 people froze in place at the bustling Union Station: A couple kissing, a woman bending over to tie her shoe, several people pointing to maps, a couple sitting at the bar with drinks held halfway to their mouths. All stopped in mid-motion and did not move for 10 minutes in a show of support for the antiwar movement.

Passersby towing suitcases weaved their way through the tableau, dubbed "Frozen Union Station." Dozens of police officers stood by; again, no arrests were made.

"This is the strangest thing," said Michele McKnelly, a librarian from River Falls, Wis., initially unsure why everyone around her had suddenly stopped. "Then I looked around and saw some of them wearing 'End the War' T-shirts."

At 5:35 p.m., the protesters started moving and chanted "End the war" for 10 minutes, then left.

"It was a very, very positive event," said protester Deanna Gorzynski, 52, of New Milford, N.J., who is with a group called The World Can't Wait. "Even those people who don't agree with us stopped to think."

here's the full article about the 5 year anniversary of the war in Iraq and the anti-war protests going on right now in d.c. they are literally marching up and down the k street corridor, right outside my office's door.