The Extraordinary Found in the Ordinary (Photos)

By Minghui Reporter De Xiang

(Clearwisdom.net) With one hand holding a corner of a banner and the other hand holding a corner of another, a petite elderly lady did her best to stand straight on her toes. If nobody had gone to take her place, she would have stood like this for hours or even a whole day. Written on the banners were "Falun Dafa Is Good!" and "Stop Persecuting Falun Gong."

This is a scene during the Chinese Communist Party leader's visit in the U.S. Falun Gong practitioners from all over the world traveled to Seattle, Washington D.C. and Yale University to protest against the genocidal persecution of Falun Gong and the crime of organ removal from live Falun Gong practitioners.

Sixty-three-year-old Mr. Sun traveled more than 10 hours by bus from Canada. He decided he should come no matter how hard it is. He felt must tell the world and the people in the U.S. about the CCP's organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, and must call on the international community to stop the brutal crimes of the CCP.

Falun Gong practitioners protest with banners.

A Falun Gong practitioner from Korea said he traveled to Washington D.C. to take the opportunity of the world's focus being on the CCP leader's meeting with President Bush to call for an end of the inhuman crime of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners.

Falun Gong practitioners send forth righteous thoughts overnight.

Some practitioners stayed to send righteous thought for a whole night when the CCP leader stayed in a hotel near the White House. Though April is not very cold, it was chilly and windy with a sharp temperature drop at night. They sent forth righteous thoughts, recited Lunyu and did the Falun Gong exercises. An elderly lady made it from Japan after persuading her family to support her journey. She looked very steadfast despite of her small figure.

Gudrun was happy to see the morning sun. When fellow practitioners came to take their places, she would be able to get some sleep. Gudrun is a retired woman from Germany. She felt tired after days of activities. To their surprise, a welcome crew organized by the Chinese Embassy arrived around 6 a.m. Welcome crews had never showed up so early. The CCP must have paid a fortune for it. Falun Gong practitioners calmly held up their banners, began to clarify the truth to the group of Chinese and read Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party to them.

Gudrun forgot about sleep and unfolded a banner. When many more Falun Gong practitioners joined them, she moved to the other side of the street and stayed there until it was dark, when the CCP leader left the White House.

Gudrun, in a white shirt, stood for a whole day to hold the banner even though she had stayed up the night before.

Ms. Huang held a display board high at a crossing on Yale campus on April 20. Next to her was the Chinese Embassy's welcome crew. Ms. Huang hoped people would learn about the persecution from her display board.

She wanted to lower her arms several times when she felt sore. Every time this happened, a fellow practitioner would come to ask her if he could hold it for her. Her fatigue was gone as soon as a fellow practitioner asked her. She felt even more confident when she saw a few other practitioners hold a banner near her. When they turned around, their eyes met. They encouraged each other with a smile.

She was amazed. If it weren't for the power of Dafa, she wouldn't have been able to hold on. Her arms didn't feel tired, but felt charged with endless energy instead.

There are so many Falun Gong practitioners like the small elderly lady holding two banners, Gudrun from Germany and Ms. Huang. They are ordinary Falun Gong practitioners. Most of them quietly did all they need to do to validate the Fa. They did these things with their rationality, sincerity, compassion and a steadfast spirit to awaken more people from the CCP's deception.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/4/27/126221.html

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