Shades of the Taking of Baghdad

We should have guessed.  We did see the real reason they were there (previous post), and we should have known security for such a march would have been a nightmare.  And, at the very least, we should have figured this bunch wouldn't be up for walking anywhere.

Maybe you did guess it.  Actually, I read an article that said the families of the slain led the march, and I wondered about that for a second, but figured it meant the families were at the forefront of the march.  I guess it meant exactly what it said.

Related:

The US secretary of state, John Kerry, is to travel to Paris this week following sharp criticism of the Obama administration for not sending a senior official to Sunday’s rally in the French capital that was attended by about 40 world leaders.

Kerry, who will be in France on Thursday and Friday, dismissed the criticism as “quibbling”, and noted that the assistant secretary of state for Europe, Victoria Nuland, was in Paris at the march, as was the US ambassador to France and many embassy staffers. The US attorney general, Eric Holder, was also in Paris, but did not march.

  The Guardian

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.