Some studied. Most slept. A few people even watched the sun rise over the Pennsylvanian hills as the bus rolled toward the nation's capitol.

Soon the students and local residents who had awakened in time to catch a 6:30 a.m. bus to participate in the Right To Life March Monday started to come to life. Eventually a group of University students started to debate religious ideas and called the lone priest in the group to come forward and answer some of their questions.

The priest sat and answered question after question until the bus arrived in Washington, D.C. Everyone departed the bus and joined the flood of people heading toward the metro station across from the parking lot.

The group departed the metro at the Smithsonian station and joined the growing crowd to listen to speakers at the Elipse in front of the White House. They would eventually join the estimated 100,000 to 125,000 people in the march.

The speakers included veteran and freshmen senators and representatives, but the individual speaker who had the most visible effect on the crowd was a young Californian woman who came with her mother to the event.

This young woman told the crowd about her mother's choice to have an abortion. Her mother was pregnant with twins, but nobody knew. When the abortion was performed, the doctor only removed the speaker's twin brother from the womb.

The woman said she has forgiven her mother for trying to abort her, and now the two travel the nation speaking against abortion.

At the Elipse, it was difficult to see the stage in the sea of placards that the people were carrying.

The signs came from everywhere. Groups from as close as Maryland and New York were there as well as groups from California, Washington state and a small group from Holland came to show their support for the pro-life movement.

The signs were distributed by March for Life Fund and by the Knights of Columbus, but many brought their own. Many of the signs were simply opposed to abortion, but others showed support for presidential candidates. And one showed the comic strip characters from the Peanuts saying, "We're glad Charles Schulz wasn't aborted."

Many people carried signs showing the mangled heads and twisted limbs of babies after they were aborted.

Fathers carried their children on their shoulders to help them see the stage.

The crowd was not limited to any type of person. There were Christians, Jews, Muslims, Asians, blacks, whites, men and women, and they all marched.

They marched down Constitution Avenue. While they marched some sang, some chanted -- there was even a marching band at the front of the group.

The group moved down the street like a tidal wave. The view from the top of Capitol Hill removed any doubts about the size of the assembled crowd. Pro-life people lined and flowed through the street for as far as the eye could see.

As they marched up the hill they passed a group of four individuals identifying themselves as Queers For Choice, who said "(The march) looks like the Klan."

As the march turned off Constitution Avenue, the U.S. Supreme Court building came into view. At the steps of the highest court in the land stood a legion of police officers. They stood closely -- less than three feet away from the next officer.

In front of the police stood another pro-choice group with their backs to a huge placard of a bloody aborted baby. As the front of the march reached this opposing group it started to progress more slowly and they began chanting. In less than three minutes the pro-life crowd had seemingly swallowed the pro-choice group. There was not a pro-choice sign to be seen.

As the front of the march passed the U.S. Supreme Court building, the crowd broke up to talk to their legislators in the Capitol and the buildings their offices are in.

More than an hour after the front of the march reached its conclusion, the end of the march passed the Capitol Building on Constitution Avenue.